Police files

DEAD MAN IN CORDOVA

A 67-YEAR-OLD man was found dead inside a public cemetery in barangay Poblacion, Cordova town off Mactan Island, Cebu.

Police identified the fatality as Laureano Sanchez.

The man had no external injuries when he was found yesterday morning.

The family requested that the body be autopsied to determine the cause of death, police said.

The man’s wife went to the police station Saturday night to report her husband’s disappearance.

The wife said her husband left home around 10 a.m. Saturday to buy something but failed to return home since then. /CORRESPONDENT CHRISTINE EMILY S. PANTALEON

FIRES HIT BOGO, DANAO

PROPERTY amounting to P70,000 was destroyed in separate fires last Saturday in the cities of Danao and Bogo, northern Cebu.

Fire struck the storage room of bottled gasoline owned by Loyd Avilla, a gasoline retailer in barangay Looc, Danao City.

The fire broke out at 5:30 p.m., said SFO2 Socrates Cane. The fire was contained in three minutes.

Cane said it was possible that someone threw a lighted cigarette butt into the storage room where there was spilled gasoline on the floor.

Cane added that someone was patching up a flat tire near the storage room when the fire broke out.

Damage was pegged at P60,000.

In barangay Nailon, Bogo City, fire razed the kitchen of a house owned by Perkic Jo Alburo.

Alburo and his wife had just arrived home when they saw that the kitchen was already on fire.

The cause of the fire is still being investigated. /CORRESPONDENT CHRISTINE EMILY L. PANTALEON