Thursday, January 24, 2008

Church urges police to expedite investigation of double murder

Tabuk City, Kalinga - The Anglican Church here has asked the police to conduct a speedy investigation of the murder of two of its members whose bodies were found floating in the Chico River late last week.

Fr. Gabriel Dapuyen, dean and rector of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Bulanao, this city, where Nick Maguinsay, married, resident of Duldulao, Malibcong, Abra but working as small scale miner in Guinaang Pasil, and Joren Maguinsay, 23, single, resident of Luba, Abra, jobless, were last seen alive 5 PM of January 10, that the church has not yet received any information even just where the incident took place.

The priest said that no witness to the crime has yet surfaced.

The body of Nick was fished out of the, Chico River at Pasonglao, Calanan, this city, January 11 while that of Joren were found by farmers floating in Tuliao, also in Calanan 4 PM the following day.

Nick was hogtied with his hands behind his back and his body, bore nine stab wounds while the body of Joren bore 18 wounds believed to be from a knife in different parts of his body and two more pounds believed to have been inflicted by a bullet and a club were found in iris head.

Dapuyen said that the two have been visiting with Jefferson Maguinsay, the catechist of the cathedral, who is a brother of Nick and cousin of Joren, at the time of their disappearance.

The priest said they discovered the disappearance of the two when the lights in the church compound were still on when it was already day as it was the responsibility of the two to turn on and switch off the compound lights.

Dapuyen said that the bodies were brought to their respective native places in Abra after mass last Sunday. **ZZW

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