MANILA, Philippines -- President Rodrigo Duterte flew in to Manila
from Cagayan de Oro Saturday night, June 3, to go to the wake of some of the
fatalities of the Resorts World Manila incident.
The President arrived around 11 p.m. to personally condole with the
family of the victims in two funeral homes in Arnaiz Street in Pasay City and
Heritage Park in Taguig City.
In Veronica Funeral Homes, the Chief Executive met privately with the
bereaved families of four of the victims, namely Hing Tung Tsung, Lai
Wei-Chung, Lai Yu-Chieh and Carmelita dela Cruz.
Around midnight, the President then went to the nearby Rizal Funeral
Homes, also in Pasay City, to pay his respects to another victim of the
incident, Eleuterio Reyes.
He then proceeded to Heritage Park in Taguig to pay his last respects
to Raoul B. Viray and Elizabeth Gonzales.
Viray was a shipping industry official. Gonzales was the wife of
Pampanga Rep. Aurelio Gonzales, Jr.
Malacañang had earlier expressed condolences to the victims of the
Resorts World Manila incident.
The Chief Executive himself dispelled speculations that the Resorts
World Manila incident was a terror attack.
“That is not the work of the ISIS. The work of the ISIS is more cruel
and brutal. They would just simply kill people for nothing. Not even for a
reason. And that was the reason why the world today has bonded together to
fight the scourge of terrorism,” Duterte said. (PND/PNA)
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