Saturday, August 30, 2008 (Philippines)

A joint team from the 78th Infantry Battalion and the Cebu Provincial Police Office dug out the remains of the Anugot family (top) in Barangay Gaas, Balamban.(Sun.star photo/Amper Campaña) A CASE that happened 23 years ago may be reopened with the unearthing of nine skeletal remains in a mountain village of Balamban town yesterday. A joint team from the 78th Infantry Battalion and the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) dug out the remains of the Anugot family, who were allegedly massacred by New People’s Army rebels on Oct. 9, 1985. Mario Anugot was the lone survivor in the attack that night. His father Mauricio, mother Saria, siblings Peng, Titing, Marlyn and three others were stabbed and strafed in their sleep in Sitio Mayana, Barangay Gaas, Balamban. [full story]