Vendor calls up daughter, kills self

MANILA, Philippines –  A 39-year-old Caloocan City vendor called up her daughter then committed suicide by drinking poison, police said yesterday.

Police Officer 1 Mark Andrew Bartolome said an empty bottle containing drops of silver nitrate, a substance used to clean jewelry, was found near the body of Jade Dinero.

Dinero’s married daughter, Jasmin, told police her mother called her up to tell her not to worry about her plan to commit suicide. She said she rushed to her mother’s house in Northville Subdivision in Barangay 171 but she arrived too late. Her mother was already lifeless when she arrived at the house at around 5 a.m.

The victim’s body was sent to the police crime laboratory for autopsy.