CEBU CITY, Philippines -- A Japanese national was found dead with a gunshot wound on his head in Sitio Climaco Extension, Barangay Poblacion, Toledo City, Cebu, at 9:45 a.m. today, August 18,
Personnel from the Toledo City Police Office’s Scene of the Crime Operatives cordon the area in Sitio Climaco Extension, Barangay Poblacion of the city where the body of Japanese national Akira Tolog was found dead on Aug. 18, 2019. |CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Police Staff Sergeant Fredenil Cabanero, the desk officer on duty at the Toledo City police, told CDN Digital by phone that residents alerted the police that a Japanese national, identified as Akira Tolog, about 60 to 70 years old, was found lying lifeless along the roadside of Sitio Climaco Extension.
Residents told the police that they heard a single gunshot being fired at around the time that Tolog’s body was found. According to Cabanero, their investigators were told that Tolog had been living in his own house in the area for quite some time but the police have yet to determine the exact number of years he had been residing in Toledo City.
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