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Man's shooting rampage in Phils. leaves 9 dead, 11 injured!
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A man who was apparently intoxicated fatally shot eight people, including a pregnant woman and a seven-year-old girl, before he was shot dead by police Friday near the Philippine capital, officials said.
At least eight other people were wounded in the shooting rampage in Kawit township, about 16 kilometres south of Manila, said Cavite provincial Governor Jonvic Remulla.
He identified the shooting suspect as Ronald Bae, whose age was unclear, though officials said he appeared to be in his 30s or 40s. Bae was killed in a shootout with responding police.
It was not immediately clear why the man went on the rampage, Mr. Remulla said.
The governor, however, said that Mr. Bae left his Kawit neighborhood about a year ago after he lost an election for village chairman, and returned Monday due to a “marital problem” with his wife, whom he had left in northern Pampanga province before New Year's.
Mr. Remulla said that the Mr. caretaker of Bae's house in Kawit was seen reloading the gunman's weapon, and that police were looking for him.
Police investigator Arnulfo Lopez said residents heard the man threatening to kill the caretaker if he did not reload the pistol during the shooting.
The governor said Mr. Bae and several friends were on a “drug and alcohol binge” from Monday to Friday, drinking alcohol and taking methamphetamine. The gunman left a store where he and his friends were drinking but later returned with his caretaker and began the shooting spree in the surrounding neighborhood, Remulla said.
He said the shooter first killed a man who lived across the street from his house. He also killed the man's dog. 
“He just shot at anyone he saw,” Mr. Remulla said.
The shooter then shot and killed the seven-year-old girl inside her home and wounded her two younger siblings — her two-year-old sister and four-year-old brother, who is one of the gunman's godsons.
The two siblings who survived were in critical condition at a hospital. No details were immediately available on the condition of the other victims who were wounded.
The pregnant woman died after being shot in the stomach, Mr. Remulla said. Her six-month-old fetus also died. 
Edwin Lacorte, an uncle of the three children who were shot, said he could hear them screaming from his home nearby.
“I could not do anything,” he said. “I could hear them screaming and I heard the shots.”
Mr. Lacorte said that he later saw bullet-riddled cushions that the children had apparently used to protect themselves during the attack.
“It must have been the eldest who covered them with the cushions,” he said.
Mr. Lacorte said he was at home during the rampage, and that as the shooter closed in on his house, he fled with his wife and their four children, two grandchildren and three nieces.
He said had he not been home, “my family would have been wiped out.”
Mr. Lacorte said he and his family crouched as they ran from the gunman through the muddy former fishpond behind their house.
“He was shooting at us as we were running,” he said.
Abigail Valte, a spokeswoman for President Benigno Aquino III, said the killings “will certainly fuel the efforts of the [Philippine National Police] in its drive against loose firearms.”
Police estimate there are about half a million firearms that are either unlicensed or have expired licenses around the country.
A seven-year-old girl died Wednesday after being hit in the head by a stray bullet fired during New Year's Eve revelry in a Manila suburb. Police are still trying to determine who fired the shot.
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What kind of mess? 
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