QC street yields 2 bodies in boxes

An early-morning stroll led a woman to two shocking finds on a Quezon City street Wednesday morning.

Mercy Bitara was walking around 5:30 a.m. along Calamba Street near Cordillera in Barangay Lourdes when she came upon two large boxes—which turned out to be containing the bodies of two murdered men.

SPO1 Randy Bantillo of the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (QCPD-CIDU), said both victims were strangled and had metal wires still wound around their bodies.

Bantillo described them to be between 35 and 40 years old, both 5’5” tall and fair-skinned.

One of the victims bore a “Commando gang” tattoo on his right leg and the names “J. Alvarez” and “Saturnino” on his back.

The other man had “Lando Hercodes” tattooed on his right arm.

The bodies were wrapped in garbage bags and then stuffed inside boxes that were dumped in the old site of the barangay hall in Lourdes. Jeannette I. Andrade