Probe on BDRC
military assault
By
KIT BAGAIPO
An investigating
team of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is looking into the assault of the
Bohol Detention and Rehabilitation Center (BDRC) last Tuesday which resulted to
the death of an inmate.
Meanwhile,
the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Bohol Chapter will also form its own
probe team to ascertain if "excessive or brutal force" was used during
the operation at the detention facility.
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| BDRC ASSAULT. The
315 inmates at the Bohol Detention and Rehabilitation Center (BDRC) were unsuspecting
when a joint military team assaulted the center Tuesday dawn. Photo shows the
tightly guarded open ground where the inmates, hand tied and face down, are being
inspected individually before they were allowed to go back to their respective
cell. Inmate Nilo Corbita (photo on p. 27) was killed during the assault Foto
BRUCE ZABALA | Just
Before Deadline.....
More
shabu
found in Subic
PAMPANGA.
At least 30 kilograms more of shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) were recovered
by agents of the Presidential Anti-SmugglingGroup and Task Force Subic yesterday
raising to 744.66 kilos the total haul of illegal drugs recovered at the Subic
Bay Freeport.
Divers
of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority found the latest contraband in three boxes
floating in the sea off the ship repair facility, the same area where a Taiwanese
vessel suspected to be carrying the cargo docked, according to Colonel Rolando
Magno, chief of the Task Force Subic, the anti-smuggling arm of the SBMA.
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SPORTS
Banal starts training
for first title crack
Bohol's
best world prospect AJ "Bazooka" Banal is in deep preparation for his
first crack at the world title at the ALA Gym in Cebu city.
Since
last week, the undefeated Corella, Bohol-native has already logged more than 70
rounds against the likes of Hilario "Bon Jovi" Canillas and the veteran
Pedro 'Corbita' Malco for the WBA superfly title in Cebu City on July 26, according
to CDN correspondent and ring judge Salven Lagumbay.
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