S Korean found dead in water; Cops question Filipina live-in partner

A South Korean has been found dead in a water tank at a building in Metro Manila’s suburb of Parañaque City, prompting authorities to question his Filipina live-in partner.
 
The bloating body of 38-year-old Kim Ji-hun, alias ‘John Kim’, was found floating in the tank on Good Friday at No 8 Avida Tower 5, in the city’s Barangay San Dionisio, according to Senior Superintendent Andrei Felix, chief of Parañaque City Police.
 
Felix said the police got hold of a footage taken by the building’s CCTV, or closed-circuit television, which shows Kim horrified and running away from the unit he was sharing with Normelita Taguin, his live-in partner, before his death.
 
Kim’s remains were discovered when Rogelio Mercado, a maintenance crew at Avida Tower 5, tried to clean up the water tank, owing to a foul smell in the water coming out of the building’s faucets.
 
A report on Kim’s death carried today by the tabloid Abante did not indicate what Kim was doing in the Philippines.
 
The last nine years saw South Koreans come to the Philippines by the thousands every month to study English, an international and business language being spoken by 1.8 billion peoples worldwide.
 
South Koreans are bent on learning English—with the Philippines offering a cheaper alternative to English-speaking countries—as a second language as part of the globalisation plan implemented by their government. 
 
 
2 CAFGUs die in Good Friday procession

Two members of an irregular auxiliary force of the Armed Forces of the Philippines were killed when communist rebels fired at a procession on Good Friday by the Catholic faithful in the southern Philippine province of Agusan del Norte.
 
The fatalities were identified as Ariel Andohuyan and Ernie Parasin, members of the Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU), who were providing security to the procession, according to Lieutenant Colonel Eugenio Julio Osias IV, spokesman of the Army’s 4th Infantry Division.
 
The tabloid Abante today said the incident happened in Sitio Iyaw, Purok IV, Barangay Anticala of the province’s Butuan City on March 29, the 44th anniversary of New People’s Army (NPA), the armed group of the outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
 
The faithful who participated in the procession, done for the Station of the Cross, a Catholic ritual remembering Jesus Christ’s last days on Earth every Holy Week, panicked when they heard gunshots coming from nowhere, reports reaching radio stations in Manila said.
 
Osias IV said other CAFGU members responded to the incident, followed by reinforcements from the Philippine Army and police.
 
In the neighbouring province of Surigao del Norte, meanwhile, a 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck on Black Saturday followed by two mild aftershocks, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS).
 
It said the epicentre was felt at 27km northeast of Burgos town, adding that the quake, which hit at 9.50am (Manila time), had a hypocentre of 39km. The two aftershocks were measured at 3.8-magnitude (9.54am) and 4.0-magnitude (10.43am) respectively.
 
PHIVOLCS said no fatality or injury resulted from the earthquakes.

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