Victim of summary execution found in black garbage bag in Quezon City

MANILA, Philippines — A scavenger stumbled onto the body of a man, believed to be a victim of summary execution, while she was sifting through a garbage pile in Quezon City.

Christine Quilara was looking through the contents of garbage bags heaped on the Aurora Boulevard Bridge in Barangay (village) Immaculate Concepcion, Cubao when she saw the slain man’s head wrapped in packaging tape jutting out from one of the bags.

Police Officer 2 Romeo Niño, of the Quezon City Police District Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (QCPD-CIDU), described the body to be that of a man between 25 and 30 years old, five-foot-six inches tall, fair-skinned, with cropped hair and a moustache. The man also sported a tattooed bar on his left middle finger.

Niño said that when Quilara discovered the body at around 5 a.m. on Wednesday, she immediately reported her find to the police.

The case investigator said that the body had been stuffed inside a black garbage bag, with its head tightly wrapped in packaging tape. The victim also had multiple puncture wounds in the body and a ligature mark around the neck.