LTO employee hangs self

An employee of the Land Transportation Office in Cebu City was found dead hanging from under the stairs of his house at the corner of Balagtas and Panganiban streets, barangay Pahina Central, yesterday dawn.

Homicide Section investigators identified the government employee as Filomeno Antonio, 53, assigned as license evaluator at the Licensing Center of LTO-Cebu City located along Natalio Bacalso Ave.

Police said Antonio was found by his son-in law Silvestre Bontilao hanging with a nylon rope around his neck under the stairs and rushed him to Cebu City Medical Center but to no avail.

Lovelien Sulib, Antonio’s co-worker, said he was not that problematic every time he goes to work at the licensing center and claimed the fatality appeared to be a happy person always telling jokes.

Police said they not seen signs of foul play on the cadaver but requested to have the body autopsied.  — Edwin Ian Melecio/BRP