Human skeleton found in dump site

By Felipe V. Celino 

ROXAS CITY, Capiz— A garbage collector found a human skeleton at the sanitary landfill in Brgy. San Jose here last Sunday.

According to Joey Patricio, 33, and resident of said place, he and his fellow garbage collectors were looking for items that can be sold in junk shops when he saw the sack with the skeleton inside.

They also found a driver’s license, cap, and socks. When they checked the driver’s license and the identification card, it was owned by a certain Wilson De Andres of Barangay Baybay, Roxas City.

Investigation by the Roxas City police indicated that the skeleton was dug from Banica Cemetery recently by a sepulcher. It remains unclear how the remains ended up in the landfill.

In a radio interview, a certain Neneng Casugbo said her sepulcher nephew dug up the skeletons upon request of De Andres’ family.

She said the De Andres family paid her nephew P3,500 to exhume and transfer the remains to another tomb as was customarily done.

Meanwhile, the De Andres family is planning to file appropriate legal action for the dumping of their relative’s remains in the dump site.