Student dies in hazing

An 18-year-old student, belived to be a victim of a fraternity hazing, died yesterday at the Manila Sanitarium Hospital in Pasay City.

Senior Inspector Garry Reyes, head of the Makati Police Investigation Division, identified the victim as Clark Silverio, a mechanical engineering student of the Technical University of the Philippines (TUP).

He said that a freshman student of TUP brought the victim to the hospital.

"The hospital staff did not release the student despite denying he had something to do with the death of the victim," Reyes said.

The student is currently being interrogated by Makati police investigators.

He claimed that he just found the badly beaten Silverio at the corner of Vito Cruz and ABC streets in San Antonio Village, Makati.

Reyes said Silverio bore bruises in the different parts of the body.

Reyes said it was likely that Silverio was a victim of hazing. – Rhodina Villanueva