Tuesday, September 16, 2008
3 men find human skull in plastic bag hanging from tree in Sapangdaku
A HUMAN skull was discovered by three men looking for snails in the hillside sitio of Barangay Sapangdaku, Cebu City yesterday morning.
Diosdado Abella, 28, Rico Entero, 25, and Allan Lausa, 20, were looking for a snail locally called korakol, which is a delicacy.
When they reached Sitio Caimitohan, they found a yellow plastic bag containing a human skull. The plastic bag was hanging from a madre de cacao tree.
Laboratory
The skull was already brittle and maggots had already begun to infest it.
The three left the plastic bag there and ran to inform Diosdado’s uncle, Arcias, a shop owner who called up the barangay hall.
SPO3 Rey Cuyos of the Cebu City Homicide Section said they will submit the skull to the Regional Crime Laboratory and ask medico-legal officer Nestor Sator to examine it.
They have yet to determine if the skull was male or female and how long ago the person died.
However, residents in Sapangdaku told reporters that there was a 13-year-old boy who went missing in 2006.
The boy was reportedly a student and a search was launched that year.
However, Cuyos said they still had to check on this report and could not confirm if the skull belonged to the boy who was missing. (MEA)
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