Another drug suspect in Manila ‘rises from the dead’ but…

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IT’S Lazarus in Manila part two.

Another man reportedly “killed” in a police operation in Tondo “rose from the dead” for a few hours on Thursday before going to the morgue.

“Buhay daw e (he’s alive),”  the Manila Police District’s scene of the crime operatives and the driver of St. Rich Funeral parlor in Parola, Tondo told Inquirer past 5 p.m.

The man, who has yet to be identified as of writing, was “killed” in a “police operation,” homicide investigator SPO2 Richard Escarlan said in a separate interview.

SPO2 Gene Reyes of Moriones police station phoned in the report to MPD homicide section at 4:50 p.m.

Before proceeding to the crime scene at Parola compound holding area, Escarlan informed the funeral parlor to retrieve the body.

But when a representative of the funeral parlor arrived at the scene to take the body, SOCO said the man was taken to Gat Andres Bonifacio Hospital “because he’s still alive.”

Hospital records show that the man was taken to the hospital at 5:14 p.m. He remained under observation at 8 p.m. before expiring at 8:20 p.m.

This was the second time that a man “killed” in police operation turned out to be alive after operatives reported him “dead.”

At 1:30 a.m. on September 13, Malate police also called the homicide unit to report that two men were “DOS” or dead-on-the-spot on Aldecoa Street. They died after fighting cops in an alleged buy-bust operation.

But one of them, Francisco Santiago Jr., played dead until the media arrived. Santiago said  no buy-bust operation took place.