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Police investigators are conducting a probe on the death on Saturday afternoon of a 53-year-old Quezon City jail inmate who was found strangled to death on his bunk with a makeshift garrote.
PO2 Anthony Tejerero, of the Quezon City Police District Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (QCPD-CIDU), said that foul play cannot be ruled out in the death of Antonio Diño, a member of the Sigue-Sigue-Sputnik gang, who has been detained at the facility for a year for allegedly violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act.
Tejerero said that Diño would have found it difficult to operate a garrote by himself. A garrote, formerly used as a device in executions in Spain, utilizes a piece of wire or rope tightened around a person’s neck with a piece of wood.
According to the case investigator, Diño was found at around 3:30 p.m. inside cell 7 of the Quezon City jail at the corner of EDSA and K-3rd Street in Barangay Kamuning.
Another detainee found Diño lying unconscious on his bunk with a length of galvanized iron wire looped around his neck, tightened with a piece of wood. He immediately sought the help of Quezon City jail guards: SJO1 Felian Camero and JO1 Leopoldo Baniqued, who brought the unconscious inmate to the East Avenue Medical Center.
But the suspected drug offender was declared dead on arrival by attending doctors.
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