Police, on Thursday, said bodies of a former lawmaker in the Philippines, his driver, and bodyguard, were found burned inside a car. The bodies of former congressman Edgar Mendoza and his two aides were discovered at the backseat of the car on a bridge in the town of Tiaong in Quezon province, 85 kilometres south of Manila. “Police received a call about the burning vehicle before dawn,’’ Major Lawrence Panganiban, the chief of police in Tiaong, said. “He had left his house on Wednesday to meet with a client in nearby Laguna province,’’ Panganiban said. He added that police would conduct DNA tests on the charred bodies to confirm identities of the victims.

Source: Punch January 09, 2020 18:36 UTC