A contract
worker from the Philippines is facing first-degree murder
charges after he allegedly stabbed and killed his roommate
with a knife in the Marshall Islands capital,
Majuro.
Nestore Aguilar is in jail after being unable to
post the 5,000 US dollar bail set by Marshall Islands High
Court Judge Richard Hickson.
Aguilar is charged with
murdering Arnal Soliman, his roommate and fellow contract
worker from the Philippines last Saturday.
Soliman died at
Majuro Hospital of stabbing wounds shortly after the
assault.
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