Camp Vicente Lim, Laguna – The bodies of four alleged victims of summary execution were found in two locations in Dasmariñas, Cavite yesterday morning, police said.
Senior Superintendent Hernando Zafra, Cavite police director said the three victims that were initially found were identified as Paul Joseph Atibo, 16, a second year high school student, Sargon Taroy, 17, and Inisron Tocalo.
Reports said the three were found at Barangay Salawag. They were hogtied and their heads were covered with plastic bags.
Investigators said the three victims were believed to have been tortured before they were killed.
Residents later recovered the body of 52-year-old Vicky Madarang, a tocino vendor of Blessed Ville, Barangay Malinta, Dasmariñas, Cavite.
Police said the body was placed inside a sack and placed in a cardboard box and was abandoned in Barangay H2 Datu Ismael, Dasmariñas.
Investigators have not yet determined the motives for the killings.
Three days ago, three dead women were also found at Ilang-Ilang street, Barangay Datu Ismael, Dasmariñas.
Meanwhile, two businessmen were found dead with gunshot wounds on their heads at a junction road in Barangay Casili, Cabuyao, Laguna, early Wednesday morning.
Barangay Chairman Olan de Sagun said the bodies of the victims Niño Desuyo, 27, and his friend Edgardo Paterno, 37, both residents of Talisayan, Barangay Sampaloc 4, Dasmariñas, were found in a vacant lot at around 6 a.m.
The victims were both traders at the Consumer Plus complex in Cavite.
De Sagun said the body of Desuyo was identified by his wife, Mildred at the funeral parlor.
He told police investigator that residents heard five gunshots at around 4:30 a.m. and they saw unidentified armed men escaping from the area.
The following day, the bodies of the victims were discovered by passersby. – Arnell Ozaeta, Ed Amoroso