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Old couple shot, burned to death

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June 30, 2004 | 12:00am
BUTUAN CITY — Unidentified men shot and burned to death a septuagenarian couple in Marihatag, Surigao del Sur Monday night, police said.

Neighbors of Amelio and Cecilia Telen, both 73, told probers they heard two gunshots and commotion inside the old couple’s house in Barangay Mahaba, afterwhich they saw the house in flames.

Two members of the Telen household who were tied up by the attackers managed to escape. — Ben Serrano

AFTERWHICH

BARANGAY MAHABA

BEN SERRANO

COUPLE

HOUSE

MARIHATAG

NEIGHBORS OF AMELIO AND CECILIA TELEN

SUR MONDAY

SURIGAO

TELEN

TWO
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