Actress Alma Concepcion issues account of Pasay concert deaths
Actress Alma Concepcion on Thursday went to the National Bureau of Investigation’s Death Investigation Division (NBI-DID) to give her statement on last month’s Closeup Forever Summer Concert in Pasay City where five people collapsed to death. NOY MORCOSO III/INQUIRER.net
Actress Alma Concepcion on Thursday went to the National Bureau of Investigation’s Death Investigation Division (NBI-DID) to give her statement on last month’s Closeup Forever Summer Concert in Pasay City where five people collapsed and died.
The incident has shed light on the new form of drugs using synthetic materials that killed the victims.
Concepcion said she issued a sworn statement and gave her narration of the incident.
Earlier, Concepcion posted a lengthy status on her Facebook account narrating what she witnessed at the concert.
“I saw the teenagers dancing, wearing shades, masks, chewing gums they came in prepared with all the props. Masks, inhalers, lights, shades, bandanna to cover face. They don’t look like first timers in taking ecstacy,” she said in her post.
“They danced for more than an hour, none of them holding any liquid. Obviously they weren’t on just alcohol as their eyes were rolling, teeth grinding, and they were dancing non-stop for the whole hour (or more than). No liquids,” she added.
Concepcion said she also saw a girl collapsing and the latter’s boyfriend trying to carry her.
The girl that collapsed turned out to be one of the five fatalities later identified as Bianca Fontejon.
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The other fatalities are Ariel Leal, Lance Garcia, Eric Anthony Miller and Ken Migawa
The NBI last week said one of the five victims tested positive for lethal synthetic drugs.
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NBI Forensic Division chief of staff Rommel Papa said they found traces of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) methylene homolog and methylenedioxycathinone commonly known as “bath salts” in one of the two victims that they have autopsied.
Papa explained that the methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) methylene homolog and methylenedioxy cathinone are new kinds of drugs that the NBI’s Anti-Illegal Drugs Division said are dangerous and not fit for human consumption but not illegal.
He said these are classified as “psychoactive,” “mind-altering” and “hallucinogenic” drugs.
Both drugs, he added, are not yet included on the list of prohibited drugs under Republic Act 9165 or the Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. RAM/rga
