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MANILA, Philippines\u2014 The bodies of a man and a woman peppered with bullets, were found early Tuesday at they site where they were apparently summarily executed in Manila, police said.<\/p>\n
But residents of Port Area near where the bodies were found were too scared to provide investigators information for fear of reprisal.<\/p>\n
Senior Police Officer 2 Glenzor Vallejo\u00a0 of the Manila Police District\u2019 homicide section told the Inquirer that the unwillingness of witnesses to come forward left investigators facing a blank wall.<\/p>\n
Vallejo identified the slain man as Manap Sapak, 37, a native of Daguma, Bagumbayan in Sultan Kudarat, while his female companion remained unidentified. The investigator described the woman as being between 40 and 45 years old, four-foot-one tall, of medium build, and clad in a black shirt and gray short pants.<\/p>\n
He said that both bodies, when found at around 2 a.m. Tuesday at Block 9 Extension of the Baseco Compound, bore multiple bullet wounds in the head and body from an M-14 automatic rifle, a caliber .45 pistol and a 9-mm pistol.<\/p>\n
Barangay 649 Zone 68 officer Abdul Manan Amerol was informed by an area resident of the discovery of the two bodies and immediately sought the help of the police.<\/p>\n
Vallejo pointed out that at the crime scene, the bodies lay on their bellies, with the back of their skulls apparently cracked open by the bullets.<\/p>\n
Recovered near the bodies were two empty shells from an M-14 automatic rifle, three empty shells from a 9mm pistol, and a .45 caliber pistol shell.<\/p>\n
Sapak was identified through a passport in his wallet while his female companion carried no identification card.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey might have been ordered to kneel before they were both shot in the head at close range and then repeatedly shot where they fell,\u201d the\u00a0 investigator told the Inquirer.<\/p>\n
He described residents in the area as being \u201cevasive\u201d when he attempted to obtain information from them.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of them told me they heard gunfire but immediately left when I started asking for details,\u201d Vallejo said.<\/p>\n
The bodies were taken to the Cruz funeral parlor for autopsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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