HK survivors, victims’ kins demand RP send witnesses
03/10/2011Survivors and relatives of victims of the botched hostage rescue at the Quirino Grandstand last Aug 23 where eight Hong Kong tourists died issued a joint letter yesterday demanding that the Philippines send witnesses to the inquest on the incident being held in the territory and to provide crucial evidence, such as a DNA sample of gunman and hostage-taker Rolando Mendoza and at the same time called for an immediate reply from Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.
More Philippine authority goof ups surfaced yesterday in the ongoing inquest being held in Hong Kong as the territory’s experts who collected evidence a week after they testified that key evidence on the bus were either moved or were missing.
Reports stated that local examiners did not follow procedures in conducting autopsies on the victims of the bloodbath.
Hong Kong’s Department of Health senior forensic pathologist Joey Lam Wai-man said he witnessed shoddy autopsies carried out on Wong Tze-lam and his wife, Yeung Yee- wa, by Philippine National Police medico-legal officers before their bodies were repatriated, reported the Hong Kong Standard..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110310hed5.html
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