South Korean nabbed in murder of 3 compatriots

A South Korean national was arrested in Parañaque City on Thursday in connection with  the murder of three compatriots in Pampanga province last month.

A team from the Bureau of Immigration (BI) found Park Wang-yeol, 38, inside his apartment at Arista Place, Barangay Dongalo.

BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said Park was wanted for allegedly killing three fellow Koreans, one of them a woman, in Bacolor, Pampanga, on Oct. 11.

Morente said officials from the South Korean embassy sought the bureau’s assistance to have Park arrested.

“We will deport him as his continued presence here poses a risk to public safety and security, unless there are criminal cases pending here in the country that would prevent the implementation of the deportation order,” he said.

Immigration records showed that Park arrived in the country on Sept. 16.

Almost a month later, the bodies of the three Koreans were found at a sugarcane field in Barangay Maliwalo, Bacolor, on Oct. 11.

The victims—Sim Tae-so, Maeng Jung-yeon, and Park Young-pi—bore gunshot wounds in the head and bruises on the body.

The case brought to six the total number of South Koreans found dead this year in the Philippines.