Pampanga inmate takes fellow inmate hostage for 13 hours

SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga ,Philippines  – After 13 hours of negotiations, an inmate of the Pampanga provincial jail here who had taken a fellow inmate hostage finally surrendered at around 2:15 p.m. yesterday.

Senior Superintendent Edgardo Tinio, Pampanga police director, said Wilfredo Lorilla, 37, ended the hostage drama after a short talk with his sister, Jane Lorilla Tabunda, who came all the way from San Carlos, Pangasinan.

Before he took fellow inmate Bernardo Narciso hostage, Lorilla stabbed and wounded another inmate, Jonathan Miranda, who is now in critical condition at Jose B. Lingad Memorial Hospital due a heart problem, Tinio said.

Another inmate reportedly suffered leg fractures after he jumped from the second floor of the jail building at the height of the hostage drama.

Tinio said Lorilla was emotionally disturbed because no relatives had visited him at the provincial jail since he was locked up last May.

Tinio said Lorilla was arrested last May for an attempted murder case in Mexico town. – With Ding Cervantes