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Forensic pathologist Raquel Fortun said the bodies of those killed last month in Negros Occidental were so poorly handled that one was returned to the wrong family and some clothing ended up missing or mislabelled — lapses she says make it difficult to fully reconstruct what happened to the 19 who died. 

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Local broadcaster Noel Bellen Samar, 54, died Tuesday after being shot by an unidentified gunman in Albay.

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Local broadcaster Noel Bellen Samar, 54, died Tuesday after being shot by an unidentified gunman in Albay.

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