2 men found dead in SUV

MANILA, Philippines - The bodies of two men were found in an abandoned sport utility vehicle (SUV) in a Quezon City neighborhood yesterday morning.

The men, still unidentified, had puncture wounds and strangulation marks when they were discovered by village watchmen inside a parked Honda CRV in Barangay Holy Spirit.

Police Officer 2 Hermogenes Capili said the Honda CRV was discovered by a resident, who lived near the corner of Cerilo and De Leon streets at around 7 p.m. Thursday.

The grey SUV (XPB-777) was parked near the house of Johnny Malto. Yesterday at around 8 a.m., Malto left home to get a haircut and saw the vehicle still parked there. Capili said the SUV appeared to have been registered to a certain Angelito Nicolas of Bulacan.

Malto then reported the parked vehicle to village authorities, who sent watchmen to check it out.

Quezon City Police District Station 6 commander Superintendent Eleazar Matta said the men were seated in the backseat of the SUV when the watchmen checked on the vehicle.

Matta said the men had puncture wounds in the chest and shoulder and ligature marks on the neck.

Matta said one was fair-skinned, chubby, clad in a red shirt and black pants, and had tattoos of the words “Gnad” and “Madrigal” and the images of a scorpion and a snake with a woman’s face.

He said the other man was also fair-skinned, of medium build, in a black shirt and blue jeans, and bore tattoos with a tribal design and the words “Gorilla and valve wire.”