2 drown in Sagay;
girl killed in mishap

Two persons reportedly died of drowning in Sagay City , while a minor was killed when she was sideswiped by a vehicle in Cauayan, Negros Occidental during the weekend, police said.

The body of Arnold Magusora, 31, already in an advanced state of decomposition, was discovered floating in a storage pool in Brgy. Old Sagay in the city, on Saturday.

Police investigations show Magusora was reported missing by his relatives on Nov. 8.

On the same day, a body was also found floating at Tan-aw River in Sagay City .

Sagay police investigators described the victim whose identity has not been established, between 25 and 35 years old, about 5 feet tall, wearing denim pants and a yellow T-shirt.

The body was brought to a funeral parlor in Sagay, for post-mortem examination.

In Brgy. Masaling, Cauayan, 5-year-old Lina Zerrudo died on Nov. 9 after she was sideswiped by Isuzo Elf vehicle. The driver of the vehicle identified as Roland Ronquillo immediately surrendered to the Cauayan Police Station.

Pedro Catubay also landed in a hospital after his motorcycle collided with a Toyota Altis automobile driven by Cristopher Ng at Rizal Street, in Kabankalan City, on Nov. 10.*GPB

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Cop facing murder charges

Police have filed murder charges against a trooper of the 614 th Provincial Mobile Group for the death of a 25-year-old man in Bago City, Negros Occidental, in what he justified as an act of “self-defense”.

Supt. Alex Belonio, Bago police chief, yesterday said the respondent, identified as PO1 Richard Retolosa, who is assigned at the 614 th PMG headquarters in Cauayan, is now detained at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology lock-up facilities in Bago.

The filing of murder charges and detention of Retolosa, was for the death of Jason Pahilanga, 25, in Brgy. Balingasag, in Bago City on Oct. 26.

Police investigations show that when Pahilanga, who was allegedly high on drugs, was advised by Retolosa to calm down and go home, he stabbed the cop in the left arm, Retolosa fired a warning shot with his M-14 assault rifle, but Pahilanga, reportedly pressed his attack, prompting the police officer to short him, police reports said.

Belonio said the M-14 rifle was surrendered by Retolosa to the Bago police. He also surrendered the bladed weapon allegedly used by the victim in stabbing him.*GPB

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Bacoleño knifed by lover

A man was stabbed by the live-in partner he had left, in Bacolod City during the weekend, the police said yesterday.

Rodolfo Sante, 48, of Purok Neptune, Brgy. Singcang, Bacolod City , was brought to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital with a wound on the left side of his stomach allegedly inflicted by his live-in partner, Nenita Aliman, at about 8:30 p.m. Friday, police records showed.

Sante is now stable at the hospital, Police Station 1 investigator PO2 Celito Dullan said.

Dullan said that Aliman, 37, attacked Sante with an unidentified bladed weapon at the city slaughterhouse in Brgy. 35. Sante reportedly left her after a brief relationship, and did not give her any financial support.

He added that Sante had told him he is not planning to file charges against Aliman as he will try to settle the conflict.*PP

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