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2 kids die as man runs amok

Gilbert Bayoran - The Philippine Star

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines — A man was arrested after he ran amok in Barangay Pacuan, La Libertad, Negros Oriental on Sunday, killing two children and wounding five others.

Police said the fatalities are an eight-year-old and a two-year-old. 

The grandparents of the fatalities and three other children aged 14, 12 and five were wounded.

Initial reports showed that Joan Isidro, who was armed with a knife, barged into the house of the victims, who were sleeping, and went on a stabbing spree.

Col. Julian Entoma, Negros police officer-in-charge, said probers are eyeing a family feud as the motive.

It has yet to be determined if the suspect is suffering from a mental illness.

The victims are left to the care of their grandparents because their parents are working in Cebu.

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