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Samal Island beauty queen raped, killed —police


A 2016 beauty queen from the island town of Samal in Davao del Norte was raped and killed Wednesday morning, a radio report said Thursday.

Radio dzBB-Davao's Raul Tolibas reported that the victim, identified only as "Kimberly", was raped and killed on the morning of July 19, and that police have held one suspect for investigation.

Tolibas quoted a friend of the victim named John as saying that Kimberly was a beauty queen candidate for the Mutya ng Samal 2016. 

An initial police investigation showed that the victim was raped and killed at about 11 a.m.  At around 1 p.m., her body was found dumped in a muddy carabao pond.

An official of the Samal police told dzBB that authorities are holding a man seen near the crime scene for questioning.

Police investigators brought the man identified as Ricardo Sale, 50, to the police office for questioning after the cops found his shirt stained with mud, which they suspect was from the muddy pond. —LBG, GMA News

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