BACOLOD City – A man was found dead bearing hack wounds on the body in Sitio Mambusao, Barangay Tabu, Ilog, Negros Occidental, a police report showed.
Police identified the man as the 18-year-old Rodelio “Estong” Rebato of Barangay Tagoc, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental.
Rebato was found along the road around 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, police said.
He was brought to the Lorenzo D. Zayco District Hospital in Kabankalan City where attending physician Dr. John Dexter Lopez pronounced him “dead on arrival.”
Police were still investigating Rebato’s death./PN