“We can arrest them but we cannot punish them and we should not injure them. If you will (harm them), you will be answerable to me,” Police Brig. Gen. Antonio Yarra said in a statement in Filipino.

A man who reportedly shot dead a 15-year-old boy in Pasig City last Wednesday was arrested in Parañaque City on Friday.

A man who reportedly shot dead another man was himself killed by a police officer in a firefight in Manila on Friday night.

A businesswoman was gunned down in Trece Martires, Cavite on Friday.

The Army’s 3rd Infantry Division has dismantled two New People’s Army guerrilla fronts in Negros.

Qualified voters in the newly created legislative districts in Rizal will elect their representative in the regular polls next year, the Commission on Elections said yesterday.

Another lawmaker has contracted COVID-19.

Twenty local government units may face administrative sanctions over illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in their jurisdiction.

The holding of Eid’l Fitr group prayers and other public and private gatherings is not allowed in Sulu amid a spike in COVID-19 cases.

A man suspected of being a member of the Abu Sayyaf terror group was arrested in Taguig on Friday.