Housewife gang-raped;
hubby hogtied, mauled
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

A 25-year-old housewife was gang-raped yesterday by three unidentified armed men in Brgy. Minoyan , Murcia , in the presence of her husband and their 2 and 4-year-old children.

The husband was hogtied and blindfolded.

A Murcia police report said the three suspects took turns for almost two hours in molesting the victim, whose identity is being withheld.

The victim, her husband and two children, were sleeping when the suspects who were wearing bonnets and armed with handguns, barged into their residence at about 1 a.m. yesterday.

Bishop saddened
by city ok of STL
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

Fr. Aniceto Buenafe, director of the Diocese of Bacolod Social Action Center, said yesterday that the Catholic Church is not satisfied with the decision of the city officials in allowing the operation of Small Town Lottery in Bacolod City .

He said Bacolod Bishop Vicente Navarra told Mayor Evelio Leonardia and Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson during their meeting Monday that they are very frustrated and saddened because despite the moral grounds they presented, the city did not consider.

Leonardia had earlier said he is allowing the operation of STL in Bacolod after the Sanggunaing Panlungsod made its position clear on the matter.

6 winners in Iloilo
SK polls drown
BY NESTOR P. BURGOS JR.

ILOILO CITY – The death toll in Sunday's swimming accident of winning Sangguniang Kabataan candidates in Iloilo rose to six yesterday after the remains of a young girl who was earlier reported missing was recovered by rescue teams.

Senior Supt. Ricardo de la Paz, Iloilo provincial police director, said the remains of SK councilor Lovelyn Bollos, 17, was recovered underwater around 7:30 a.m., 50 meters from the shoreline of the Buendia Beach Resort in Carles town in Iloilo. Carles is around 146 kilometers northeast of Iloilo City .

The remains of five other young girls were recovered on Sunday near the area where Bollos was found.