P1 million bounty up for arrest of suspect in Davao rape-slay

DAVAO CITY — Police said they are investigating five persons of interest in connection with last week’s rape and murder of a young female architect here that has prompted widespread condemnation and an offer of a P1 million bounty by Davao 1st District Rep. Paolo Duterte.

Davao region police spokesperson Lt. Col. Eudisan Gultiano said investigators are now backtracking the route of the bao-bao or ombak, a local name for a type of pedicab common in rural areas in the city, on which Vlanche Marie Bragas was last seen riding in before her body was discovered in a ditch at a banana plantation in Dacudao village, Calinan district on May 17.

Gultiano, also the spokesperson of speci…

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