AT least 60 more remains of persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) left unclaimed at the accredited funeral parlor of the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) will be buried this week, the Bureau...
AT least 60 more remains of persons deprived of liberty left unclaimed at the accredited funeral parlor of the New Bilibid Prison will be buried this week, the Bureau of Corrections said. 'Next Friday, 60 more PDLs will be buried. There are about 40 cadavers left that are planned for autopsy,' BuCor officer-in-charge Gregorio Catapang said in a radio interview on Monday.
The cadavers were among the 176 bodies found at the Eastern Funeral Homes, the lone accredited funeral parlor of the NBP, last October during the investigation of the death of Cristito Villamor Palaña, an inmate who was identified as one of the middlemen in the killing of broadcaster Percival 'Percy Lapid' Mabasa. Catapang said the NBP has reached out to the families of the dead inmates. He said the cadavers that will be buried are in advanced state of decomposition.
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