Thursday, September 3, 2009

Man hacked to death, girlfriend raped in Tabuk City

TABUK CITY, Kalinga - A man was hacked to death and his girlfriend who was fleeing the crime scene was raped at barangay Ipil, this city, night of August 24.

According to intial police investigation, Anthony Lumbag, Jr., 21, single, tricycle driver residing at Magsaysay, this city, and Joyce Ann Casmus, 20, separated, with postal address at Tuao, Cagyayan, checked out of the DR's Videoke Bar in Dagupan Centro here where she works as GRO at 10 PM of August 24 and proceeded to his hut in the middle of a farm in Ipil in Lumbag's tricycle.

While on the farm-to-market road leading to the farm, the couple met three men on a motorcyle with whom Lumbag exchanged high fives. The three men then disappeared.

The police said that after the couple finished their sex act, two unidenfied men barged into the hut and hacked Lumbag in the neck twice resulting in his instant death.

The two men then forced Casmus to follow them and when they arrived at the tricycle of the victim, they forced Casmus to board it afterwhich one of the suspects tried to drive the tricycle which went out of control and ran into a rice paddy.

The two suspects with Casmus then walked north where they met a motorcycle with one rider. Upon seeing the approaching motorcyle, the two men ran away leaving Casmus on the road.

Casmus asked the motorcyle rider for help but instead of helping, the male rider raped her on the road then forced her to ride with her dropping her in a dark place in Dagupan Centrro.

A Provincial Mobile Group patrol team which chanced upon Casmus walking along Mayangao Street in Dagupan Centro brought her to the city police station also in the same barangay where, in between sobs, she related some details of the incident to police investigators. **By Estanislao Albano, Jr., ZZW

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