US deports fugitive

A Filipino seaman wanted in the Philippines for the grisly killing of his wife and three children in Nueva Vizcaya last April was deported from the US and was scheduled to arrive this morning at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on board a Philippine Airlines flight from Los Angeles.

Danilo Afalla, accompanied by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the US, was reported to have boarded a PAL flight in Los Angeles bound for Manila. He was in handcuffs during the flight, according to a wire report.

Afalla, 40, seaman, left for the US last April 18, a day after the bodies of his wife Aperacion, 40, and daughter Chinee, 15, sons Mark Anthony II, and Michael Angelo, 5, were discovered buried in the bank of the Magat River in Mariano Marcos, Bayombong.

The suspect had brought his entire family to his hometown in Nueva Vizcaya where he reportedly killed them. The motive for the killing was intense jealousy. The suspect doubted his siring the younger children.

FBI agents arrested Afalla in Florida, USA upon the request of Philippine authorities. He was able to leave the country because there were no formal charges filed against him at the time. – Rey Arquiza