ILOILO City – Marte Piñas was taken to a hospital for the treatment of injuries on his body.
The native of Barangay VI Poblacion (Hawaiian), Silay City, Negros Occidental has been mauled in Barangay President Roxas, City Proper here, a police report showed.
The 32-year-old Piñas was with his friends in front of a hotel at around 1:30 a.m. Saturday when a group of drunken people attacked him, police said, citing witnesses.
The suspect fled on board a taxi after the incident, stated the police report.
It was not immediately clear as of this writing what the motive behind the mauling was.
Piñas was confined in the West Visayas State University Medical Center in Jaro district./PN
