By CYRUS M. GARDE
BACOLOD City — A 50-year-old woman was found dead in a cave in the coastal barangay of General Luna in Toboso town.
Land conflict was being eyed as the motive behind the death of Charie Aburido of the adjacent coastal barangay of Pinocutan in Calatrava.
Aburido’s body was already in a state of decomposition when Toboso police retrieved it in Sitio Maaswa at about 3 a.m. yesterday.
She was clad in a long-sleeved shirt and a pair of pants.
Aburido did not have any stab or gunshot wound, said Senior Inspector Roberto Mansueto, chief of Toboso police.
Her family, however, believed the victim was strangled to death, basing on “signs of struggle.”
A local health officer was still trying to determine the cause of her death as of this writing yesterday afternoon.
According to Mansueto, a relative on Aug. 4 sent Aburido a text message telling her to meet him in Barangay General Luna, Toboso.
Her husband tried to stop her, but she insisted on going. She went out of their house alone. She was unable to come back home.
Yesterday, her body was found by a fisherman, who in turn reported to the police.
Mansueto said the victim and her husband was having a land conflict with their relatives; once, their relatives pointed a gun at them.
He said the husband received a similar text message a day before Aburido’s body was found.
Mansueto said they have identified a suspect, but he already left his house./PN
