Nude body found at Cocal Estate

Ralph Ban­warie

The nude body of an uniden­ti­fied man of mixed de­scent was dis­cov­ered by work­ers at Co­cal Es­tate, Man­zanil­la, on Mon­day.

Re­ports in­di­cate that work­ers were col­lect­ing dry co­conuts when they came up­on the body and alert­ed the es­tate man­ag­er who im­me­di­ate­ly con­tact­ed the Man­zanil­la Po­lice Sta­tion.

Of­fi­cers re­spond­ed and were di­rect­ed to the scene by work­ers. Of­fi­cers found the man ly­ing nude on the grass with in­juries to his head.

The vic­tim has not yet been iden­ti­fied. Po­lice are ap­peal­ing to mem­bers of the pub­lic with miss­ing rel­a­tives to con­tact the Man­zanil­la Po­lice Sta­tion at 668-2062.

The es­tate man­ag­er al­so told po­lice that he had seen a green wag­on parked along Man­zanil­la Road on Sat­ur­day. He said that when he re­turned to the es­tate on Sun­day, the ve­hi­cle had been com­plete­ly burnt.

Po­lice were in­formed and re­spond­ed, re­mov­ing the ve­hi­cle to the Man­zanil­la Po­lice Sta­tion as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.

Homi­cide of­fi­cers are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the dis­cov­ery and whether the burnt ve­hi­cle may be con­nect­ed to the case.