{"id":16893,"date":"2025-10-08T07:13:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T23:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=16893"},"modified":"2025-10-08T07:13:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T23:13:47","slug":"man-slain-body-tied-to-mangrove-tree-in-bataan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/man-slain-body-tied-to-mangrove-tree-in-bataan\/","title":{"rendered":"MAN SLAIN, BODY TIED TO MANGROVE TREE IN BATAAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABUCAY, Bataan \u2014 Authorities are conducting an in-depth investigation into the killing of a man whose body was tied to &nbsp;a mangrove tree beside a river in Bgy. Mabatang, this town.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bataan police reported to Police Regional Office 3 (PRO3) director Brig. Gen. Ponce Rogelio Penones Jr. that the victim\u2019s body was placed inside a plastic bag and tied to a bakawan (mangrove) tree on a river at Sitio Paruba.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Village watchman Armando Valencia, a resident of the area, found the plastic bag with the victim inside.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Valencia reportedly retrieved the plastic bag containing the body and placed it in a styrofoam box on the river embankment before alerting authorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Responding members of the Abucay police immediately secured the area and coordinated with the Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) for a forensic examination.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Probers are determining the identity of the victim and the circumstances behind the killing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY KEVIN GALANG ABUCAY, Bataan &mdash; Authorities are conducting an in-depth investigation into the killing of a man whose body was tied to &nbsp;a mangrove<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/h6f22uxn.png",1024,607,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/h6f22uxn-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/h6f22uxn-300x178.png",300,178,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/h6f22uxn-768x455.png",640,379,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/h6f22uxn.png",640,379,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/h6f22uxn.png",1024,607,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/h6f22uxn.png",1024,607,false],"kreeti-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/h6f22uxn.png",1024,607,false],"kreeti-featured":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/h6f22uxn.png",1024,607,false],"kreeti-medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/h6f22uxn-720x530.png",720,530,true],"kreeti-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/h6f22uxn-350x350.png",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/category\/provincial\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Provincial<\/a>","tag_info":"Provincial","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16895,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16893\/revisions\/16895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}