2 drown in Negros
October 5, 2020
A fisherman and a laborer were reported by the police to have drowned Saturday in Hinigaran and Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental.
A fisherman and a laborer were reported by the police to have drowned Saturday in Hinigaran and Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental.
Police stations 2 and 7 in Bacolod City have new chiefs.
A senior citizen and two other drug suspects were apprehended Thursday by the police in separate buy-bust operations in the cities of Victorias and Silay, Negros Occidental, which yielded about 60,000 worth of suspected shabu.
Negros Oriental has a new provincial police director.
The fifth most wanted person of Ozamiz City was arrested at Galo-Hilado streets in Barangay 20, Bacolod City, at about 11:20 a.m. Thursday.
A chicken vendor was shot at Galo-Ramos streets, at the Burgos Public Market area, in Barangay 19, Bacolod City, at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Two more bodies believed to have been swept away by a flash flood in Bacolod City on Tuesday, were found yesterday.
The wife of alleged Cebu drug kingpin, Jinnefer Mercado, was found dead, and buried in a bamboo plantation in Brgy. San Miguel, La Carlota City, Negros Occidental, Wednesday.
A woman was injured in a shooting incident in Purok Lawayan Takas, Barangay Banago in Bacolod City, at about 4:30 a.m. yesterday.
Members of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office, who have fully recovered from COVID-19, took turns in donating blood plasma for the pandemic victims, deputy provincial police spokesman PLt. Wilma Silva yesterday said.
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