by Bill Ventura
PNA
ALICIA, Isabela - An overseas Filipino worker has expressed remorse after he repeatedly stabbed to death his girlfriend and his girlfriend’s mother last weekend in Barangay Paddad here, police said on Sunday.
Bernabe Astacio of Solano in Nueva Vizcaya stabbed dead Catherine Galamay and her mother Liza Galamay. He also stabbed Catherine’s father Saturnino but survived with the timely treatment at the hospital.
Astacio said he was irked due to the news that his girlfriend would get married in April.
He said he was sending money to Catherine while working as seaman, which she spent for building a house and buying a lot. The two women sustained stab wounds on their chests, rib cages and back while Saturnino was stabbed on his stomach.
Astacio was charged for two counts of murder and one count of frustrated murder.
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