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Man kills elder bro for beating own pa

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CEBU, Philippines - A man struck to death his own brother with a bolo after he saw the latter allegedly beating their own father for a still undetermined reason.

Jolito Alforque, 40, got a bolo owned by his father and began hacking his own brother Joberto, 42. The incident happened on New Year’s Eve in barangay Cogon Cruz, Danao City.

Joberto sustained fatal wounds on the abdomen and on the chest.

SPO3 Edgar Gomez of the Danao City Police Station, in an interview over dySS Super Radyo, said that police officers immediately responded to a report of one Roel Perez, a machine operator, on the said incident.

Gomez confirmed that a drunk Joberto mauled his own father, Francisco Alforque, 86. When Jolito saw the incident, he immediately “came to the rescue.”

His brother died on the spot.

Police officers are now ready to file a case against Jolito who is still at large. — Gabriel C. Bonjoc/MEEV (THE FREEMAN)

COGON CRUZ

DANAO CITY

EDGAR GOMEZ OF THE DANAO CITY POLICE STATION

FRANCISCO ALFORQUE

GABRIEL C

JOBERTO

JOLITO ALFORQUE

NEW YEAR

ROEL PEREZ

SUPER RADYO

WHEN JOLITO

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