RP police accused of murder

Fri, 30 Mar 2001, 00:00 WIB | Source: AFP

MANILA (AFP): Rogue members of an elite anticrime police task
force strangled a kidnapped publicist of former Philippine
president Fidel Ramos and set fire to the corpse, officials said
on Thursday.

Authorities have arrested two farmers who admitted to having
taken part in the disposal of the corpse of publicist Salvador
Dacer, 63, and his driver, Manuel Corbito, Justice Secretary
Hernando Perez told reporters.

He said the two suspects worked with members of the elite
Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force, who they accused of
kidnapping and murdering the victims.

Farmers Jimmy Lopez and Alex Diloy told a news conference at
the justice department that the policemen strangled the victims
with a length of electric cord, shortly after they were snatched
from Manila on Nov. 24.

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