THE THREE men found dead inside a van parked in a vacant lot in Taguig City on Saturday morning were identified by authorities as employees of a company that sent them to deliver a cargo of steel bars to Laguna province the previous day.
Senior Supt. Ramil Ramirez, officer in charge of the Taguig City police, said they were truck driver Fremar Dumo, 37, and his helpers Juniper Garcia and Crisanto Tangalin.
The three victims were found bloodied, their hands and feet bound and their heads covered with cloth, inside a white L300 van in Purok 6, Barangay Napindan.
Ramirez said they were employees of Cathay Pacific Steel Corp. whose Taguig office is only about three blocks away from the spot where the bodies were discovered.
According to Senior Insp. Ruther Saquilayan, the chief investigator, Dumo, Garcia and Tangalin were supposed to deliver 3,000 steel bars worth P1 million to San Pablo, Laguna on Friday, but their superior lost contact with them later that day. The delivery also didn’t arrive in Laguna.
The L300 van also turned out to be a stolen vehicle. It belongs to Teresita Don Diego of Parañaque City, whose family last saw it parked along a street in Better Living Subdivision Friday morning.
Ramirez on Monday said they were still looking for suspects and investigating what had become of the “hijacked” truck and its steel cargo.