Teacher, cancer victim commit suicide

A head teacher of a public elementary school in Tuburan town, and a man suffering from cancer in Naga City were reported to have committed suicide Saturday.

Saturday dawn in barangay Poblacion in Tuburan, the body of head teacher Leslie Quijada was found by his wife hanging with a rope around his neck tied to a concrete water tank of their neighbor, a former town councilor.

Tuburan police investigators said Leslie’s wife, Midmar, narrated that she woke that early morning to find her husband was not inside their house.

This prompted Midmar to look for her husband outside their house and see him already dead hanging from the water tank. She quickly shouted for help from her son Ricky to let loose Leslie’s body from the rope.

The body was taken to the Tuburan Health Center where a medico-legal officer stated that Leslie had committed suicide.

Town policeman, PO2 Raul Jamiro, said Leslie was an active leader of the town’s Charismatic Movement but there were rumors that Leslie had molested a student of his school.

Leslie might have not been able to bear the rumors which could have driven him to commit suicide, said Jamiro.

Saturday evening in barangay South Poblacion in Naga City, the police reported that 28-year-old Jose Russel Labrado committed suicide by hanging himself with a blanket to the truss of his house.

Naga City police investigators said Labrado’s wife was awakened to find his body already hanging inside their house.

A cousin, Efren Alinsurin, recalled that Friday afternoon, Labrado requested him to tie a blanket to the truss of the latter’s house. He said Labrado had planned to do some exercises later by using the blanket.

The family believed that Labrado committed suicide because he could no longer bear the sufferings he had from his cancer ailment. — Flor Z. Perolina/RAE