Stray bullet kills
sleeping child, 5
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

A 5-year-old child  hit by a stray bullet while sleeping at home died Tuesday in Brgy. Pandan, Pontevedra, Negros Occidental, the police said yesterday.

Senior Inspector Argel Ancheta, Pontevedra police chief,  said Lea Leonor, 5, was hit in the right leg.

A certain Joel Lucton, 21, was also hit in the buttocks, police records also showed.

Ancheta said three unidentified men with 9mm and .45 caliber pistols and wearing bonnets, on board a motorcycle, shot Lucton and his brother, Nonoy, in the barangay Tuesday evening.

The Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod constituted itself into a committee of the whole to conduct a legislative inquiry in aid of legislation on the entry of a suspicious substance in Bacolod City, through a resolution it passed Wednesday.

The substance found in a shipment of 77,000 bags of National Food Authority rice from Vietnam to Bacolod was discovered by authorities at the BREDCO port on Jan. 28, 2010.

Councilor Al Victor Espino, chairman of the SP Committee on Police, Security and Jail Management, who authored the resolution, said the substance was reportedly declared by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency as N-Metamphetamine Hydrochloride that can be processed into an ingredient for shabu, and later declared to be ammonium sulfate.

Illegal assembly charges will be filed by the police against the members of the Kabataan party list group, who jeered at the convoy of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo when she visited Teleperformance Global Marketing and Teleservices Solutions at Magsaysay Street in Bacolod Wednesday, City Police officer-in-charge Senior Supt. Celestino Guara said yesterday.

About 12 protesters positioned themselves at the San Antonio Abad Parish Church in front of the call center but they were prevented by at least 50 members of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office Civil Disturbance Management team.

Guara said they will file the charges against the protesters because they had no permit to rally. Some of them also cursed the policemen who were trying to control them, he added.