Trike driver, woman held for Korean spa exec’s slay
CALAMBA CITY, Laguna, Philippines – Police are holding a tricycle driver and a woman to determine their participation in the killing of a Korean resort manager here last March 15.
Superintendent Marvin Saro, city police chief, refused to identify the two for security reasons, saying though the 35-year-old woman was accosted last Saturday and the tricycle driver the following day.
Saro said the two were among four persons caught by the closed-circuit television camera of the 88 Hotspring Resort and Spa on the day Yan In Geong, the resort manager, was found dead in his room.Yan was tied up and stabbed several times, with his throat slashed.
Saro said they were still looking for two men whose composite sketches were released yesterday.
Police said three guests checked in past midnight of March 14 under the name of Michael Torres but stayed only about half an hour.
Saro said probers found bloodstains in the guests’ room not far from Yan’s.
Probers are eyeing robbery as motive as Yan’s belongings were missing, although they are not discounting business rivalry and personal grudge.
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