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Zamboanga amok may have been a spurned lover

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines?Ex-convict Felin Mateo who killed three people and wounded three others when he went amuck in a public school here on Friday was possible broken-hearted, police said Saturday. Based on their initial investigation, police said it turns out that Mateo was spurned by a 16-year-old girl he had been courting. Read More

Investigator welcomes reopening of Glorietta blast probe

MANILA, Philippines?A former police officer who led the investigation of the 2007 Glorietta 2 explosion welcomed calls for a reinvestigation of the incident after the leader of an Army Explosives Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit claimed that the official probe was a cover-up. But retired police Director Geary Barias, who was chief of the National Capital Region Police Office at the time, stood by the findings of a multi-agency task force that investigated the blast and insisted it was caused by… Read More