BACOLOD City – Police arrested a man for hacking and stabbing another resident to death in Barangay Payauan, Candoni, Negros Occidental.
The 49-year-old Valeriano Plabiano died of multiple hack and stab wounds on the body, a police report showed.
The police identified the suspect as the 62-year-old Cesar Vesanes.
Vesanes and Plabiano were having a drinking binge when a heated argument ensued between them on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear what triggered the altercation.
Vesanes allegedly took a bolo and attacked Plabiano, who was rushed to the Rural Health Unit in Candoni.
The attending physician pronounced Plabiano “dead on arrival.”
Vesanes, on the other hand, was arrested and detained in the lockup cello of the municipal police station./PN
