2 more bodies found in Manila, Quezon City

Two more alleged victims of summary execution were found in Manila and Quezon City yesterday, the second day in a row that bodies have turned up in both cities.

In Sta. Cruz, Manila, a scavenger discovered the body of a man wrapped in a black garbage bag on a garbage heap at the corner of Rizal Avenue and Yuseco street.

The victim’s hands and feet were tied, his face wrapped with masking tape and a metal wire looped around his neck. Police noted two puncture wounds on the victim’s chest.

The victim’s execution was similar to the body found Thursday at the Quezon bridge in Quiapo, Homicide Section head Chief Inspector Alberto Peco noted.

The first body, later identified as that of fruit vendor Darwin Pajarillo, 29, was sealed inside a wooden crate on which a message was written, identifying him as a robber and warning people not to imitate him.

Pajarillo was hogtied, his face wrapped with masking tape, and his body bore a gunshot wound and several stab wounds.

Peco does not preclude the possibility that the victims could have been killed outside Manila and their bodies dumped in the city.

In Quezon City, the body of a still unidentified man was found dumped in front of a house in Capitol Green Subdivision in Barangay Tandang Sora at around 3 a.m.

Police Officer 2 Rodel Tumangday said the victim’s face was wrapped with packing tape. The man had a gunshot wound in the face and he was strangled with wire.

The victim’s hands were also handcuffed, Tumangday said in his report.

Quezon City police director Chief Superintendent Magtanggol Gatdula said they are checking if the perpetrators of the killings had a “signature” to indicate if the slays were done by the same group of persons.

The discovery of the body happened the day after the remains of two slain men were seen dumped on a sidewalk along Mindanao Avenue Extension.

According to Gatdula, there is a possibility that the killings were because of personal vendetta.

“Based on criminal profiling, the killings are brutal, which indicates that the reasons behind them are more of personal grudge,” he said.

Gatdula said the men could be members of “white collar syndicates” and the killings were part of a turf war. – Nestor Etolle, Reinir Padua