BACOLOD City – Authorities are now looking into a person of interest who might be involved in the murder of a 60-year-old woman who was found partly buried in a sugarcane field in Barangay Tabu, Ilog, Negros Occidental.
She was identified as Melba Paglumotan, a resident of the village, police said.
Paglumotan’s body, covered with soil and sugarcane leaves, was discovered around at 4 p.m. on Jan. 3, a police report showed.
Police investigators said the victim bore two stab wounds on the right arm and suffered a broken neck.
Paglumotan’s body was brought to a local mortuary for a “post-mortem” examination.
Officers of the Ilog police station were still investigating the incident./PN
