Kid snatchers yarn spreads fear in Davao

Children kidnapped for internal organs?
 
Rumors of a kidnap gang abducting young children in North Cotabato have spread to Davao City, thanks to text messaging.
 
Police here immediately dismissed as a hoax circulating text messages about the gang snatching children to be sold for their organs.
 
But Sasa Police precinct chief Rommil Mitra cautioned parents to be [...]

Teener cuts off penis, slits throat

This 19-year sure has a bizarre way of saying goodbye to this world.
He cut off his penis, slit his throat, and slashed his wrist in a suicide that shocked residents of a village in Tupi, South Cotabato.
The dead and decapitated body of Joh Rey Gutao, 19, was found by his sister, Lenny, inside his room in [...]

Slain raped girl comes back to life

A family in Davao Del Sur mourning  for two days over the dead body of a 13-year old they believed was their daughter—whose naked violated body was found in a sugar plantation on Saturday last week—got the shock of their life on Monday.
Their daughter Jocelyn arrived home in flesh and blood, with her family grieving [...]

“Drowning dead’ in Davao cemetery to be saved from floods

 
            The agony of the dead getting drowned by waist-high floods in a Davao cemetery may be over soon.
            Councilor Dante Apostol yesterday pleaded for funds to rehabilitate the Panacan public cemetery that converts into a perennial sea during heavy rains.
            In yesterday’s session, Apostol submitted a resolution urging City Hall for much-needed funds and [...]