CEBU CITY, Philippines – The bodies of the alleged leader of the Greenbelt Rolex heist and another suspect slain with him in what the National Bureau of Investigation described as a shootout with the authorities on October 29 have been identified and claimed by relatives, a Manila-based lawyer has said.

Lawyer Cayetano Santos said Friday that a sister of Alvin Flores, an aunt and a cousin identified his body Thursday afternoon at the Cosmopolitan Funeral Parlor in Cebu City.

Santos said Flores' relatives confirmed that Flores had undergone plastic surgery. Flores was identified through a tattoo of a girl sitting on a flower on the left side of his chest and a tatoo of Lady Justice on the right side of his body, the lawyer said.

Santos said Flores' relatives even hugged the body.

The body of the other suspect, Mark Salamanca, was identified by his sister. Only the body of Roger Sanchez remained unclaimed at the Cosmopolitan Funeral Parlor.

The body of a fourth slain suspect, Richie Hijapon, a native of Sta. Fe on Bantayan Island, Cebu, was claimed by his relatives a day after the killing.

Santos said he was hired by the Flores and Salamanca families only for the process of identifying and claiming the bodies of the alleged robbers so they could give them decent burials after cremation in Cebu.

He said he was not hired to pursue a case against those responsible for their deaths.

Santos said the families of Flores and Salamanca had no plans to run after NBI agents who killed them during what they claimed was shootout at a beachside apartment in Barangay (village) Estaca in Compostela.

He said the family preferred to leave the matter to the Commission on Human Rights and the media to pursue.

Asked about the reaction of Flores' family to allegations that he was the leader of a robbery gang, Santos said the family told him they did not have any knowledge about it since they had not seen him for six years.

He said the CHR could still conduct an investigation of allegations the killings were the result of a rubout and not a shootout even without the cooperation of the slain men’s relatives.