Butchered bodies dumped in Camanava
The bodies of two men were dumped in Caloocan City and Navotas City yesterday.
Chief Inspector Ronald Perilla, Caloocan Police Substation 5 commander, said a man’s torso was dumped behind the barangay hall of Barangay 172 in Camarin.
The torso, wrapped in garbage bags, was found by Moneth Figueroa, a teacher at the nearby Urduja High School at around 6:20 a.m. in a canal at the back of the barangay hall.
“Fresh blood was still dripping from the garbage bags when the body part was found. Beside it was a cardboard with a written message ‘ Mabuhay ang Tau Gama. Hindi mo kaya si Makaw (Long live Tau Gama. You can’t take on Makaw),’” Perilla told The STAR.
Perilla said the victim’s head, arms and legs were “cut clean” and the skin on his chest and back had been scraped clean of tattoos.
“Who ever did this wicked act appeared to be an expert in butchery. They even literally erased the victim’s tattoos in order to make him more difficult to identify,” Perilla said.
Perilla said that the victim could be in his early 30s.
According to Senior Police Officer 1 Allan Budeos, the area where the victim’s body was thrown is isolated and dimly lit. He said they are still coordinating with officials of adjacent barangays to help them look for the missing parts of the victim’s body.
In Navotas City, the body of Noel Macaraya, 24, a resident of Barangay Tangos, was found along the bank of a river on C-4 Road at about 7 a.m.
PO1 Joel Javier said Macaraya sustained several stab and hack wounds in different parts of his body. He bore a gaping wound in the nape that almost severed his head.
Witnesses told police that Macaraya, a welder, was last seen at around midnight drinking with three men while attending the wake of a relative in Barangay North Bay Boulevard North.
Navotas police chief Senior Superintendent Florendo Quibuyen directed his men yesterday to arrest Macaraya’s killers.