Two men kill selves over love problems
Two men who were confronted with love problems were found dead in apparent cases of suicide in Cebu City.
Castell Torres, 18, was found by his father suspended from a tree around 3 a.m. yesterday. A text message in the man’s phone showed that his girlfriend broke up with him hours before he was found dead.
The victim’s father, Andres Torres Jr., told police his son had told him that he would commit suicide because of the breakup.
The father told police that they were sleeping when his son woke up. The son asked permission that he would go out of the house to check on their livestock.
The father said he became worried when his son failed to return home hours after he left.
The father sought help from barangay tanods until he found the man hanging by the neck a few meters from their house.
In barangay Lahug, Dennis Listonis, 25, was also found hanging dead inside a room of his house.
The mother of the victim told police that her son became depressed when his girlfriend sent him a text message to inform him that she was breaking up with the man.
Before he was found dead, Listonos sent a text message to his friend Daniel asking him to call his phone after 30 minutes because he would commit suicide.
A 17-year-old female schoolmate denied that she and the man had a relationship, saying they were just best friends./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON
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