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29 March 2024

Four killings in Holy Week in Philippines capital

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Four killings occurred within a few hours of each other around Manila since Holy Wednesday.

Three people were stabbed to death while a mugger succumbed to injuries inflicted by residents of a Manila neighbourhood.

Edgar Banada, a 40-year-old carpenter residing on Candido Driveway in Metro Manila’s Las Piñas City, was found dead after he was stabbed in the city’s Talon Uno district on Wednesday evening, according to the tabloid ‘Abante Tonite’.

In the same city on Thursday, Rodrigo Gonzales Sr brought to the police his 18-year-old grandson Marvin Gonzales, a suspect in the killing of a man who was trying to collect unpaid debts from the suspect’s mother.

An initial report submitted by Senior Superintendent Adolfo Samala Jr, chief of Las Piñas City Police, quoted a 14-year-old son of the dead man as saying that his father went to the house of the suspect whose mother had failed to repay her debts despite several appeals from the lender.

A teenager in Metro Manila’s Navotas City was stabbed dead by members of the Negative Gang, a group of school dropouts, on North Bay Boulevard South in the small hours of Maundy Thursday.

Police Officer Ferdie Sangco identified the victim as Justo Gonzaga, 16, a resident of PFDA Compound, Lambatan, in the city’s Barangay NBBS. He added that the victim was a member of the Positive Gang, an archrival of the Negative Gang.

One of Gonzaga’s friends, Jason Santillan, who also belongs to the Positive Gang, said his group went on a drinking spree after midnight on Wednesday which ended at 3am on Thursday.

He added that Gonzaga walked home alone and was stabbed by members of the Negative Gang on the city’s R-10 Road.

Residents in Santa Ana, a Manila district southeast of Pasig River, beat a man to death after he and three companions held up a jeepney and seized money and other valuables from its passengers.

Police Officer Charles John Duran of the Manila Police District-Homicide Section said the still unidentified man died at the corner of Tenorio and A Francisco Streets, with wounds all over his body due to severe beating. He added that the police are now hunting the three other suspects who escaped.