5 dead inside Baguio apartment - report

MANILA, Philippines - Police are now looking into the massacre of five persons, including three children, in Baguio City whose bodies were discovered on Sunday.

Reports said that the cadavers of Dave de Guzman, 7; Raymond Delmendo, 8; Joey Nociete Jr., 9; Jacquelyn Nociete, 19; and Jonalyn Lozano, 32; were found inside the rented apartment at the fourth floor of the building on Kayang Street.

The victims bore more than 10 stab wounds on different parts of their bodies, reports added.

Vilma Nociete, mother of the two of the victims, told police investigators that her daughter texted her around 4 p.m. on Sunday, saying that a visitor dropped by the apartment.

The visitor knew the Nociete patriarch, according to Jacquelyn's text to her mother, reports said.