MANILA (AFP) - The father of Philippine pop star Charice has been stabbed to death with an ice pick in a drunken street fight, police said on Tuesday, as the singer cancelled an overseas tour to be with her family.
Construction worker Ricky Pempengco, 39, was stabbed repeatedly late on Monday after an altercation with another drinker in a street in an agricultural town south of Manila, police said.
'They bumped into each other and from there, they got into a fight,' said local police chief Senior Superintendent Gilbert Cruz. Police are still searching for the suspect in the killing, he added.
The 19-year-old singer, famous under her first name, mourned her father in a post on Twitter and said they had been close until her parents separated when she was a young child, and the children stayed with their mother.
Source: The Straits Times
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