(Update) Superintendent Georby Manuel, chief
of Provincial Scene of Crime Operations (SOCO), said the assistant bank manager
of Rural Bank of Ibajay in Poblacion, Ibajay, Aklan found dead in a fire
incident was tested negative for powder burns.
Chief inspector Joe Martin
Fuentes, Philippine National Police (PNP) Crime Laboratory medico-legal
officer, conducted the post-mortem and autopsy examinations on Gabriel Manikan
on Saturday.
Manuel said autopsy report
initially showed Manikan was negative for gun powder residue, indicating that
the victim did not fire a gun prior to his death.
“The victim sustained a
gunshot wound to the chest. The paraffin test (of the victim) turned out
negative in the presence of gun powder nitrate residue,” Manuel said.
Manikan found dead inside
the burning building on Friday morning had been fatally shot before the fire
was set in.
The victim was brought to
Ibajay District Hospital but was declared dead on arrival.
Probers claimed that
Manikan was a victim of foul play not a fire that broke out at around 6 a.m.
last Friday. The adjacent owned by a cable company was also partially damaged.
for treatment, according to responding fire fighters from Bureau of Fire
Protection-Ibajay.
The bank is located just a
few meters away from the national highway and gasoline stations in the
area.
During further
examination, police responding to the blaze also found 26 evidences.
Senior Police Officer III
Cezar Igtanloc, deputy chief of police of Ibajay, said footages stored in CCTV
hard drive will be retrieved to check the authenticity of the footages.
In an interview, Igtanloc
said P1,186,289.90 cash was turned over by the local police to the bank general
manager, but some P160,000 cash was still missing.
Senior Superintendent
Samuel Nacion, officer-in-charge of Aklan Police Provincial Office, said “there
were no signs of forcible entry into the bank.”
“We have leads in
the crime from the time sa paghalin ni Manikan sa ila balay kag sa mga
gin-agyan niya mga lugar para matukoy kung diin siya banda gin sundan sang mga
suspects,” he added.
Nacion said the police
authorities are exerting maximum efforts to solve the crime in coordination
with other law enforcement agencies.
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