One man who stabbed and another shot dead on Black Saturday in Sitio Guba, Barangay Poblacion, Sta. Catalina, and in Sitio Malasbalas, Barangay Kansumandig, La Libertad, both in Oriental Negros.

Stab was Emmanuel Binan, 32, married, allegedly by Ildefonso Teves, Sr., 63, widower, of Barangay Poblacion, at the victim's residence, with a 14-inch double bladed hunting knife.

Initial police investigation disclosed that, Teves Sr. went to the house of Binan, armed with a knife and without any provocation stabbed him in the lower part of his breast, and left portion of his back, near the armpit, resulting in his death. Binan was rushed the Bayawan District Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival by the attending physician.

Teves voluntarily surrendered to the Sta. Catalina police, accompanied by his son Elmero, and bringing with him the weapon used in the killing.

In La Libertad, farmer Michael Cornelio, 19, single, was shot dead by unidentified persons, with a firearm of an undetermined caliber. He succumbed to a gunshot wound in his chest. The police are still investigating the incident.

Meanwhile, a motorcycle and an Easy Ride collided along the National Highway of Barangay Masaplod, in Dauin town, also last Saturday.

Initial investigation disclosed that both vehicles were going in the same direction with the motorcycle driven by Santiago Mascardo, of Dalaquit, Zamboanguita, following the easy Ride driven by Alonzo Chang, of legal age, of Tigbawan, Lazi, Maria, Siquijor.

Both drivers said another vehicle ahead of them suddenly turned left causing them to immediately applying their brakes. The motorcycle hit the back of the Easy Ride causing its driver to lose control. He suffered injuries on his head and in different parts of the body.

Chang was rushed to the Silliman University Medical Foundation and is now out of danger.*RG

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