BACOLOD CITY ? She waited for her husband at the Bacolod-Silay Airport on Tuesday afternoon. He had been killed two hours earlier in Taguig City.

Remigio Ang, 65, businessman and father of three, had called his wife Leda from his unit at the posh Serendra condominium in Taguig to tell her that he was coming home to Bacolod on a 2 p.m. flight, according to his sister Mary Grace Reyes.

Earlier, Ang told housemaid Noeme Nullay, 52, that he was going out to buy some things and would return for lunch before taking a taxi to the airport for his flight to Bacolod.

His wife Leda went to the airport to collect him, and wondered why he was not among the plane?s passengers, Reyes said.

Leda had no idea that her husband had been killed when his Honda Civic exploded as he was driving it into the basement parking area of the Serendra.

The explosion occurred at 12:15 p.m.

Ang?s remains have been cremated and will be buried in Bacolod, according to Reyes.

Like a father

Reyes said her brother?s death broke her heart because he was like a father to her and their five siblings.

?Everyone went to him if they had problems, and he was there to help,? Reyes said, adding that when their brother Roberto died, Ang also helped care for the five children left behind.

She said it was ironic that her brother, who was a very shy and private person, would get nationwide publicity in death.

Ang owned Five Stars Lumber and Hardware Corp. in Barangay Tangub, Bacolod.

Carlos Montaño, barangay captain of Tangub, said on Tuesday that Ang was a good man and friend who was always willing to help the poor when needed and without fanfare.

For example, Montaño said, ?if the barangay needed a coffin for an indigent who had died, Ang was ready to provide us plywood.?

Pack of cigarettes

Taguig police said in a report that a partially burned pack of cigarettes was found in Ang?s car apart from a tin can that had traces of highly combustible material on the floor of the passenger seat.

?We have ruled out a bomb explosion because there were no fragmentary lacerations on the victim and his car. He also had no known enemies,? said Senior Supt. Camilo Cascolan, the Taguig police chief.

Cascolan said the burned tin can, which appeared to be a container of paint thinner, was still being analyzed by scene-of-the crime operatives.

He said Ang?s gate pass was also discovered outside the vehicle, indicating that the businessman was about to hand it to the guard when the explosion occurred.

?It?s possible that there was a buildup of pressure inside the car, tapos biglang pumasok yung hangin (and then there was a sudden entry of wind). Something ignited the flammable material. We?re still trying to find out why it caught fire,? he said.

But Cascolan declined to conclude that a lighted cigarette had led to the explosion.

?We?re waiting for the crime laboratory [to release] the results of the analysis of the tin can. From there we would be able to deduce what happened,? he said.