Half-naked ex-soldier stopped from suicide jump
By Frinston Lim, Inquirer Mindanao
10/05/2009
TAGUM CITY, Philippines—Tension gripped residents in this city as a former soldier climbed a 140-foot telecommunications tower in an apparent suicide attempt early Monday morning.
Albert Carbo, 51, was safely brought down by rescue volunteers after a two-hour standoff, according to Senior Inspector Eleuterio Hernando, an officer of the Tagum City police station.
The incident began at past 7 a.m. when residents saw a man, with only his briefs on, scale up the Sun Cellular cellsite tower in Barangay Magugpo West, Hernando said.
“He is apparently suffering a nervous breakdown,” Dr. Arnel Florendo of the city health office told reporters. Florendo was among the first to talk to the victim as soon as he was safely led down the tower.
“The victim was hallucinating that someone or something is constantly pursuing him,” Florendo said, adding he is recommending a psychiatric evaluation of the victim's condition in order to help him.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
boy with power ring found dead
a report from the Cebu Daily News
By Chris Ligan, 07/26/2009
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/metro/view/20090726-217299/Boy-with-power-found-dead
A 17-year-old boy was found hanging by the neck in his house in barangay Bangkal, Lapu-Lapu City at dawn Saturday.
The dead boy was found by his mother under their house.
An electrical cord was tied around his neck and the other end was tied to the bamboo slats of the house’s elevated flooring, a height of about eight feet, said PO3 Candido Barenque of the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office.
Police have recommended an autopsy to determine the cause of death and whether foul play was involved.
The teenager was last seen in a drinking session with friends.
The boy’s parents told police their son started acting strangely after he told them he found a ring a few days back.
The boy claimed that the ring gave him extra strength.
After his revelation, the parents said they noticed the teenager behaving unusually.
He was more hotheaded and depressed in recent days.
The parents said the boy explained that he was depressed because he failed to complete a task that would “give him additional powers”.
On Friday night, the boy asked money from his parents and had a drinking session with friends.
The mother said she didn’t notice her son come home.
She went out of the house looking for him only to find him hanging by the neck under their house about 2 a.m.
By Chris Ligan, 07/26/2009
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/metro/view/20090726-217299/Boy-with-power-found-dead
A 17-year-old boy was found hanging by the neck in his house in barangay Bangkal, Lapu-Lapu City at dawn Saturday.
The dead boy was found by his mother under their house.
An electrical cord was tied around his neck and the other end was tied to the bamboo slats of the house’s elevated flooring, a height of about eight feet, said PO3 Candido Barenque of the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office.
Police have recommended an autopsy to determine the cause of death and whether foul play was involved.
The teenager was last seen in a drinking session with friends.
The boy’s parents told police their son started acting strangely after he told them he found a ring a few days back.
The boy claimed that the ring gave him extra strength.
After his revelation, the parents said they noticed the teenager behaving unusually.
He was more hotheaded and depressed in recent days.
The parents said the boy explained that he was depressed because he failed to complete a task that would “give him additional powers”.
On Friday night, the boy asked money from his parents and had a drinking session with friends.
The mother said she didn’t notice her son come home.
She went out of the house looking for him only to find him hanging by the neck under their house about 2 a.m.
Albularyo asked to check if woman was possessed
Businesswoman jumps to her death in Manila
By Jeannette Andrade, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 10/01/2009
A 44-year-old Palawan resort owner died instantly Thursday morning after jumping from her 15th floor condominium unit at a 33-story building in Manila.
Before the suicide of Elena Flisi, the owner of the Dolarog Beach Resort in El Nido, Palawan, and a resident of unit 1501 of the Mayfair Tower at the corner of United Nations Avenue and Mabini Street, her 54-year-old Italian husband Edo Flisi claimed that she had been acting strangely.
“She had been showing signs of not being herself,” Flisi told SPO3 Richard Lumbad of the Manila Police District (MPD) homicide section.
Flisi, of unit 1501 of the Mayfair Tower who has been in the country for 20 years, disclosed that he returned to the country on September 7 as soon as siblings of his wife informed him that Elena had not been herself.
“We talked when I arrived at 12 midnight (of September 30) at our unit and her actuations were strange,” Flisi said in his statement. Lumbad pointed out that on September 18, the suicide’s mother died in Barangay (Village) Corong-Corong, El Nido, Palawan, and had to be transferred to Quezon Province.
Elena’s siblings told Lumbad that in Quezon Province, they noticed that the businesswoman was acting strange and had an albularyo (traditional healer) look at her because she acted as if she were possessed. She was reportedly never cured and remained depressed even after she returned to Manila to her home at the Mayfair Tower.
By Jeannette Andrade, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 10/01/2009
A 44-year-old Palawan resort owner died instantly Thursday morning after jumping from her 15th floor condominium unit at a 33-story building in Manila.
Before the suicide of Elena Flisi, the owner of the Dolarog Beach Resort in El Nido, Palawan, and a resident of unit 1501 of the Mayfair Tower at the corner of United Nations Avenue and Mabini Street, her 54-year-old Italian husband Edo Flisi claimed that she had been acting strangely.
“She had been showing signs of not being herself,” Flisi told SPO3 Richard Lumbad of the Manila Police District (MPD) homicide section.
Flisi, of unit 1501 of the Mayfair Tower who has been in the country for 20 years, disclosed that he returned to the country on September 7 as soon as siblings of his wife informed him that Elena had not been herself.
“We talked when I arrived at 12 midnight (of September 30) at our unit and her actuations were strange,” Flisi said in his statement. Lumbad pointed out that on September 18, the suicide’s mother died in Barangay (Village) Corong-Corong, El Nido, Palawan, and had to be transferred to Quezon Province.
Elena’s siblings told Lumbad that in Quezon Province, they noticed that the businesswoman was acting strange and had an albularyo (traditional healer) look at her because she acted as if she were possessed. She was reportedly never cured and remained depressed even after she returned to Manila to her home at the Mayfair Tower.
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
he came in the police station with a plastic bag containing a severed head
Boss beheaded by unpaid worker
by Tina Santos, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Manila policemen were preparing murder charges on Wednesday against a young man who admitted he killed and then beheaded his 59-year-old employer in Quiapo over the weekend because he had not been paid his wages for two weeks.
According to Chief Insp. Erwin Margarejo, chief of the Manila Police District homicide division, Srejan Sia, 24, a stay-in helper at Bernadette Eatery on San Rafael Street, Quiapo, Manila, is facing murder charges for the death of his employer, Jimmy Preston, 59.
Policemen at the Plaza Miranda Police Community Precint in Quiapo were shocked when the suspect surrendered to them on Tuesday night with a plastic bag containing the bloated and severed head of a man.
Senior Insp. Rodolfo Samoranos, the precinct commander, said the suspect later admitted to him that the head belonged to Preston and added that he was the one who killed the victim.
The headless body of the victim was found inside the bathroom wrapped in plastic sheet and lying in an improvised bath tub. Police also recovered two knives and a hammer believed to be used in the killing.
At the police station, Sia, who spoke in broken English and appeared restless, said he killed his employer because he had not been paid for the past two weeks.
Prior to the victim's death, the suspect said he was asking for his salary but the victim refused, resulting in a heated argument between them.
The suspect said he first hit the victim on the head with a piece of wood before he decided to cut off his penis, ears and then the head using a machete.
"I cut his dick and ears because I want them to blame the dogs," he said, adding that he later decided to surrender the head of the victim to the authorities.
"I don't know where to bury him so I surrendered his head," the suspect added.
Police said the suspect appeared mentally ill and are looking into reports that the victim had a romantic relationship with the suspect.
The suspect is now detained at the MPD headquarters.
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by Tina Santos, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Manila policemen were preparing murder charges on Wednesday against a young man who admitted he killed and then beheaded his 59-year-old employer in Quiapo over the weekend because he had not been paid his wages for two weeks.
According to Chief Insp. Erwin Margarejo, chief of the Manila Police District homicide division, Srejan Sia, 24, a stay-in helper at Bernadette Eatery on San Rafael Street, Quiapo, Manila, is facing murder charges for the death of his employer, Jimmy Preston, 59.
Policemen at the Plaza Miranda Police Community Precint in Quiapo were shocked when the suspect surrendered to them on Tuesday night with a plastic bag containing the bloated and severed head of a man.
Senior Insp. Rodolfo Samoranos, the precinct commander, said the suspect later admitted to him that the head belonged to Preston and added that he was the one who killed the victim.
The headless body of the victim was found inside the bathroom wrapped in plastic sheet and lying in an improvised bath tub. Police also recovered two knives and a hammer believed to be used in the killing.
At the police station, Sia, who spoke in broken English and appeared restless, said he killed his employer because he had not been paid for the past two weeks.
Prior to the victim's death, the suspect said he was asking for his salary but the victim refused, resulting in a heated argument between them.
The suspect said he first hit the victim on the head with a piece of wood before he decided to cut off his penis, ears and then the head using a machete.
"I cut his dick and ears because I want them to blame the dogs," he said, adding that he later decided to surrender the head of the victim to the authorities.
"I don't know where to bury him so I surrendered his head," the suspect added.
Police said the suspect appeared mentally ill and are looking into reports that the victim had a romantic relationship with the suspect.
The suspect is now detained at the MPD headquarters.
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