ZAMBOANGA CITY – A disgruntled man who had a quarrel with his former wife hacked three people before setting his house on fire and burning himself to death, police said Tuesday.
Police said the cadaver of the 51-year old Moradum
Titen Insaji was recovered from among the ashes of his house in the village of
Kasanyangan. The Monday fire also razed about 228 houses.
Maj. Shellamie Chang, a regional police
spokesperson, said neighbors tried to save Isnaji after he torched his house,
but he attacked his neighbors with a bolo and injured three of them.
“Moradun Titen Isnaji had a heated argument with his
ex-wife. At the height of their altercation, the subject intentionally ignited
their house. Furthermore, their neighbors tried to put out the fire, but the
subject wielded his bladed weapon, a bolo, to his three neighbors who sustained
hacked wounds and were brought to Zamboanga City Medical Center,” Chang said.
“The fire then scattered rapidly throughout the
area and the suspect was burned along with his house. The cadaver of the
suspect was recovered from the scene as a lone casualty in the incident,” she
added.
Chang, citing social services records, said some
1,791 people or 409 families were left homeless by the fire. (Mindanao Examiner)
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