Curfew up in Calbayog City after couple’s slay

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Calbayog City Mayor Diego Rivera has ordered the implementation of a curfew in the city in Samar province following the recent murder of a public school teacher and her boyfriend.

Rivera’s order took effect on June 20, six days after the victims’ bodies were found. Under Executive Order No. 17, persons 17 years old and below would not be allowed to loiter outside their homes from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. the following day.

Those 18 years old and above are prohibited from going out of their homes from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m.

Exempted from the curfew are policemen and soldiers on duty, security guards whose work schedules fall within the curfew hours, medical frontliners, and members of the city’s pandemic task force.

“In light of the recent unfortunate events that have occurred in Calbayog City, there is a need to establish additional protocols that would temporarily limit the mobility of the general public in the interest of public safety,” Rivera’s order read.

Roan Jeallen Lamparas, 23, a teacher at Calbayog City National High School, and her boyfriend, Jade Andre Bestudio, 20, were last seen on June 13.

The next day, Bestudio’s body was found with a bullet wound on his head in Barangay San Policarpo while Lamparas’ body was discovered in a grassy portion of the diversion road in Barangay Bagacay.

—JOEY GABIETA

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