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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Body of cab driver dumped in Liloan
The body of a taxi driver, believed to have been robbed, was found dumped in an unlit area in Sitio San Antonio, Ba-rangay Jubay, Liloan, Cebu yesterday morning.
The man had a bullet wound in the head.
The driver’s white Emerson taxi unit (GWR-123) was found by operatives of the Basak Police Station in Mandaue City abandoned on H. Abellana St., Barangay Basak at 6:25 a.m., its front and drivers seats smeared with blood.
Roberto Milana, Emer-son Taxi in-charge, identified the victim as Mario Obanos, 30, of Barangay Guin-daruhan, Minglanilla. Obanos also served as a lay minister of Minglanilla Parish Church.
Police said Obanos’ earnings and his cellular phone were no longer in his possession or in the taxicab.
SPO1 Willy Caturga of Liloan Police Station said they found Obanos’ body after one Faustino Bul-fango told them about it being dumped earlier by men in a car.
Bulfango told Caturga that he was sleeping near a sari-sari store when the sound of a car woke him. The car stopped a few meters from where he was, at around 3 a.m.
He did not see the people who alighted from the car. But he heard two sounds, not of gunfire, before the car left the area.
At first, police had difficulty identifying Obanos because there was no document found in his possession about his identity.
At around 6 a.m., Catur-ga’s team coordinated with the Mandaue City Police Office after receiving a report that a taxicab, smeared with blood, was found in Barangay Basak.
The taxicab proved to be the lead in identifying Obanos after Emerson’s representative Milana identified him as the driver of the taxicab.
Obanos, a regular driver of Emerson, was reportedly just an “extrador” of the unit that was assigned to fellow driver Salvador Bornea.
Obanos was assigned to drive another taxi unit but from time to time drives other units.
Jean Galeon, an Emer-son staff member, in an interview over radio dySS, said Obanos was doing well as driver.
Obanos’ body was taken to the West Land Funeral Homes in Liloan for autopsy.
Caturga said they are looking at robbery as the motive behind Obanos’ death. (JST)
(August 24, 2005 issue)
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