BACOLOD City – A man was stabbed and hacked to death in Barangay San Jose, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental.
The 58-year-old resident Lito Bawa-an died of hack and stab wounds on the body, a police report showed.
Police identified the suspects as 24-year-old Jay-r Bacorna and 47-year old Bonifacio Tabanao.
According to police investigators, Bacorna and Tabanao were drunk when they stabbed and hacked Bawa-an using a knife and a bolo around 6 p.m. on Nov. 21.
The motive in the incident was not immediately established.
Bawa-an was brought to the Sipalay City Health Office where he was “declared dead on arrival.”
Bacorna and Tabanao were detained in the Sipalay City police station’s lockup facility./PN
