Rampaging man kills 10 in Samar
MANILA MANILA (AP) - A man armed with a long knife killed 10 people, including five children, and wounded 14 more, on a drunken rampage early Saturday in a central Philippine province, police said.
The man first attacked and wounded six members of his own family with whom he lived in a remote village outside Calbayog city in central Samar province around 2 a.m. (1800 GMT), police desk officer Jessie Gianan said by telephone.
The man then barged into two neighboring homes where he stabbed and hacked at the sleeping occupants, then he returned to a wake where he had been drinking earlier and attacked everyone in his path, Gianan said.
Eight of his victims died on the spot and two died later at a hospital, Gianan said. Another 14 were wounded.
The man then surrendered to another villager who turned him over to the authorities. It was not immediately clear what prompted the rampage.
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