PILI, Camarines Sur-\u2014Police were still negotiating Tuesday afternoon with a 35-year-old man who was holding hostage his own father, a brother, a sister-in-law and a household helper in their home in Barangay (village) New San Roque here.<\/p>\n\n

Rogelio Regondola, vice mayor of Pili and head of the hostage crisis committee, said there were five persons inside the house, namely, the\u00a0 hostage-taker Anthony Zepeda, 35, his father Expedito, brother Victor, the latter’s wife, and a house helper when the hostage situation began around 9 a.m.<\/p>\n\n

Regondola, in an interview, however, could not as yet identify Victor’s wife and the house helper.<\/p>\n\n

Senior Inspector Benjamin Spa\u00f1a, Pili police chief, said in an interview that a second house helper, whom he identified as Gello Gallardo, 14, was able to escape when the commotion started during breakfast.<\/p>\n\n

Gallardo told police that before he fled the house, Expedito and Anthony were arguing and he saw Anthony hit his father with a chair.<\/p>\n\n

Spa\u00f1a said Anthony fired a gun indiscriminately, wounding three persons. Two of the injured were identified as Rubilyn Adizas, who sustained a wound in the abdomen, and Rene Becensio who was hit on the shoulder.<\/p>\n\n

The hostage situation was going on at a one-hectare compound where a facility for the production of animal feeds owned by the family is located, added Spa\u00f1a.<\/p>\n\n

He said traffic had been rerouted to the diversion road and motorists were prevented from entering the town center of Pili, where the incident is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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