Horror in Samar

From the Sun Star-

MANILA -- A man armed with a half-meter (21-inch)-long knife killed nine people, including six children, and wounded 17 others in a drunken rampage early Saturday in Samar province, police said.

The 39-year-old Danny Guades of Barangay Gadgaran, Calbayog City is jobless and is believed to be mentally deranged.

Guades first attacked and wounded five members of his cousin's family with whom he lived in at around 2 a.m., said Senior Police Officer Jessie Gianan, desk officer at the Calbayog Police Station.

One of the cousin's sons, aged seven, died later in hospital, police said, correcting an earlier report that two had died.

Guades then barged into a neighbor's house, where he stabbed and hacked to death a 37-year-old pregnant woman and her three daughters and two sons, aged one to nine. Two daughters survived, Gianan said by telephone.

He entered two other homes where five people were sleeping, killing two men, and then returned to a wake where he had been drinking earlier and attacked everyone in his path, Gianan said.

A total of 17 people were wounded, he said.

Guades then surrendered to another villager who turned him over to the authorities. It was not immediately clear what prompted the rampage.

The pregnant woman's husband apparently quarreled earlier with the assailant at the wake. The husband, a fisherman, was at the Calbayog fishing port when the attack occurred, a niece of the woman said by telephone from a local funeral parlor. She gave no other details.

My wife has family on the island of Samar and has visited Calbayog City. What happened there was just horrible, say a prayer for those who died and their families.

This article is from AP. Then why is there a second sanitized version, being released to the US media.

MANILA, Philippines - A man armed with a 21-inch-long knife killed nine people, including six children, and wounded 17 others in a rampage early Saturday in a central Philippine province, police said.

The man first attacked and wounded five members of his cousin's family with whom he lived in a remote village outside Calbayog city in central Samar province at around 2 a.m. local time, said Senior Police Officer Jessie Gianan, desk officer at the Calbayog police station. One of the cousin's sons, aged 7, died later in a hospital, police said, correcting an earlier report that two sons had died.

The man then barged into a neighbor's house, where he stabbed and hacked to death a 37-year-old pregnant woman and her three daughters and two sons, aged 1 to 9. Two daughters survived, Gianan said by telephone.

He entered two other homes where five people were sleeping, killing two men, and then returned to a wake where he had been drinking earlier and attacked everyone in his path, Gianan said.

A total of 17 people were wounded, he said.

The man then surrendered to another villager who turned him over to the authorities. It was not immediately clear what prompted the rampage.

The pregnant woman's husband apparently quarreled earlier with the assailant at the wake. The husband, a fisherman, was at the Calbayog fishing port when the attack occurred, a niece of the woman said by telephone from a local funeral parlor. She gave no other details.

UPI also had a similarly washed out article, where the killer wasn't named. I've noted this practice before when done by Reuters. The deletion of the names of companies or people in crime or odd news stories. Another example was the Andrew Tilley story, the man who shot a rocket out of his behind. I only got to name that Knucklehead after doing a search of London newspaper articles. Why do the wire services do this?

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