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(Eagle News) — Police and hotel authorities on Saturday released for the first time footage of the actions of the gunman prior and during Friday’s hotel attack, which appeared to corroborate their earlier statements that the incident was not a terrorist attack. The footage–which was released after Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said he believed the incident was an act of terrorism—showed how the gunman reached the establishment on board a taxi. National Capital Region Police Office […]
At least 70 people were rescued Saturday by government forces in Marawi City — including 23 teachers from Dansalan College, who were with a year-old baby, seven other children, and seven other adults — as intense fighting continued on its second week between the Islamist militants and government troopers. But as many as 2,000 people also remained trapped in desperate conditions in these areas, the government said, likely without food and water and with some […]
(Eagle News) — Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Saturday said the Resorts World Manila attack that left more than 30 people dead should serve as a “wake-up call” for the police and the military, who should not allow it to “instill fear in the citizenry.” This as Alvarez expressed his opinion the incident early Friday was a “clear example of a lone wolf terrorist attack targeting civilians to inflict maximum loss of lives and damage to […]
(Eagle News) — Senate President Koko Pimentel called out the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation and the management of Resorts World Manila following the attack in a casino there that left more than 30 people dead. “Do you only concern yourselves with gambling operations of these private casinos and you don’t anymore concern yourselves with security arrangements and physical matters like the fire safety of the establishment you allow casinos in?” he asked Pagcor, which […]
(Eagle News) — The gunman who barged inside Resorts World Manila and set things on fire while trying to steal casino chips used a taxi, not a private car, to get there. National Capital Region Police Office Chief Oscar Albayalde revealed this in a radio interview on Saturday. “Nakuha sa (closed-circuit television) na siya ay pumunta doon through a taxi,” he said. He said the car police initially believed to be the suspect’s turned out […]
(Eagle News) — Police are now banking on the car the gunman in the Resorts World Manila attack used to identify him, this after the man they initially reported to be a “person of interest” was cleared. “The owner of the car (we initially thought was used by the gunman) is a known personality, and people vouched for him. The car is really not registered to the perpetrator,” National Capital Region Police Office Chief Oscar Albayalde said in a television […]
(Eagle News)– Brigadier General Restituto Padilla, spokesman for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), clarified on Friday that 10, not 11 soldiers, were killed in a bungled airstrike in Marawi City on Wednesday that hit government troops, instead of the targeted Maute rebels. Padilla said that the earlier figure announced by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana that there were 10 soldiers killed in the airstrike was correct. Padilla clarified that one fallen soldier was killed in a […]
Umapela ang Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) sa publiko na huwag nang magpakalat ng mga nakaaalarmang mensahe o fake news kasunod ng nangyaring pag-atake sa Resorts World Manila, kaninang madaling araw, Hunyo 2 . Ayon kay AFP Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla, dapat maging responsable ang mga social media user at huwag nang magpakalat ng mga nakakaalarmang mensahe na maglilikha ng overreaction sa panig ng publiko. “Generally, a lot of quarters overreact to situations […]
At least thirty-six bodies were found in a casino complex. Local police have, however, ruled out terrorism as the motive of the masked man who barged inside the hotel with an automatic rifle, tried to rob the casino, and set fire to furniture in the building. He then set himself on fire and shot himself in the head.
(Eagle News)– The Palace on Friday (June 2) condoled with the family and friends of the victims who died during an attack at Resorts World Manila. “The Palace wishes to express its deep condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the Resorts World Manila’s latest incident,” presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella said. “This is a reminder that civilized society has no place for this kind of violence. Thus, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has […]
(Eagle News) — Police are close to identifying the gunman in the Pasay hotel attack that left more than 30 people dead, and 54 injured early Friday. This after Senior Supt. Tomas Apolinario, Southern Police District director, said they had already tracked down a “person of interest” who could be related to the attacker. “Through the information (provided) by the ORCR of suspected vehicles, we can know the address..What I meant was, tinitignan namin ang identity ng attacker, […]
(Eagle News) — The management of the hotel where police said 36 people were killed after a deranged armed man who tried to rob the casino there set furniture and other items on fire, then killed himself, issued a statement on Friday, neither admitting nor denying any security lapses on their part. “Security lapses? We had an armed intruder who entered into the property, he fired his firearm, he was in combat attire. Security inside the premises do […]
