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Tumambad sa mga construction worker sa kapitolyo ng Bayombong sa Nueva Vizcaya ang ilang kalansay na hinihinalang buto ng mga tao!

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00:00 A new house is to be built in the capital grounds of Bayumbong, Nueva Vizcaya.

00:05 But in the middle of their excavation, some of the bricks were broken.

00:10 What is the mystery behind the broken bricks?

00:14 That's what Lilian Tiburcio found out.

00:17 January 15, 2023.

00:25 Father Samuel is constantly working and digging the ground

00:30 in his construction site in Bayumbong, Nueva Vizcaya.

00:34 He did not expect what would happen.

00:42 He discovered something in their excavation that was holding his neck.

00:53 The bricks fell off of him.

00:56 And not the bricks of animals, but the bones of humans.

01:01 Because of what Father Samuel discovered,

01:14 their construction site was a crime scene.

01:23 Father Samuel taught me where he saw the said bones.

01:29 Father, can you tell us where you saw the bones of humans?

01:33 There.

01:35 Right there.

01:37 What was your first reaction when you saw the bones?

01:40 I was afraid that the bones were of animals.

01:45 I was afraid that it was a trap.

01:48 I was afraid that it was a trap.

01:51 I was afraid that it was a trap.

01:56 How long did you dig the bones?

02:01 About 30 minutes.

02:03 How deep did you dig when you saw the bones of humans?

02:07 2.45 meters.

02:11 He was afraid and he could not eat.

02:15 [music]

02:21 This was not the first time that the bones were found in the capital grounds of Bayumbong.

02:28 That is why they are afraid that the construction of the PDRRMO building might be stopped because of this.

02:37 This is not an isolated case here in the compound of the provincial capital.

02:41 There were other excavations of human remains elsewhere within the capital,

02:46 in the executive building as well as the people's hall.

02:48 The first thing we did was to contact PNP through their SOCO

02:52 to do some laboratory and determine what are the remains that were dug.

02:57 And whether we will be able to continue the excavation and the construction of the building.

03:04 The building became the center of attention of the residents of Bayumbong.

03:11 We went to the area to see.

03:13 Actually, we did not see the skeletal remains right away.

03:18 But there were already some that were dug by construction workers.

03:23 One part was the femur and then other parts.

03:28 So, during the further excavation, we found that there were other bones.

03:35 It was really a human.

03:36 We excavated the remains.

03:39 But the bones were already very fragile and brittle.

03:44 As far as I know, those bones were already old.

03:48 We excavated and then we accessed the area by documentation, photographs.

03:54 Unfortunately, the bones that were found were not complete.

03:57 So, it was just a part of the jaw, the bones of the lungs, and the pelvic bones.

04:05 The bones were immediately turned over to the forensic unit of PNP Nueva Vizcaya.

04:12 As per record of this office, this is the third skeletal remains that were dug.

04:20 So far, no one has claimed.

04:22 And here in the recent, on January 15, there were still no claimants here

04:28 in our recovered skeletal remains.

04:31 For this reason, the recovered skeletal remains here in the capital,

04:37 we opted to request for the conduct of anthropological examination

04:41 if possible, to determine the gender.

04:45 If our medical legal can determine it, then if there are claimants,

04:53 we will conduct or we will try to conduct for DNA profiling.

04:56 But as of this time, since there are no claimants,

05:00 our skeletal remains are still intact in our office for further disposition.

05:06 If there are no claimants, we can request for the storage in our funeral parlors

05:14 since we can request them to be examined.

05:19 The authority found out that the last bone was found in just one person.

05:28 And it is estimated that it was buried for more than a decade.

05:32 The Provincial Engineering Office conducted a mass here in the site some days ago

05:38 to respect the remains.

05:41 And our building is now continuous because we had a go signal from the PNP.

05:46 According to Mother Margarita, who has been living in Bayongbong for more than 50 years,

05:56 the Capitol grounds was just a big vacant lot.

06:00 The Capitol grounds was already cleaned.

06:02 There were no more weeds.

06:05 They were planting rice and beans.

06:09 That's why she was surprised to see bones in the Capitol.

06:13 I just heard that. I was shocked.

06:16 What bones? Animal bones?

06:18 No, it was a human bone.

06:21 I was shocked. No one was fighting.

06:26 No one was shooting. It was quiet.

06:29 But according to Mother Margarita, there are rumors that this place was once a river.

06:35 Until the road there, near the highway,

06:42 it was all a river.

06:45 They said that the elderly knew because they were the first ones to know that this was a river.

06:54 And one of her relatives…

06:57 I saw a big flood here.

07:04 The people who lived there were near the river.

07:07 There was an old man who lived there.

07:12 He was watching his house from the water well.

07:16 What is the hidden secret of this place before the Capitol grounds was built?

07:22 According to the local historian and researcher, Dr. Bonifacio Ramos,

07:27 if the history of this place will be rewritten,

07:30 where the landslides were found,

07:32 the residents of this place were just a few.

07:36 Sonueba, Biscaya, before 1960s, was a vast forest province.

07:42 It was not very accessible.

07:45 Actually, the population of Biscaya was very small at that time.

07:50 The Capitol area was barren.

07:53 There were no houses in between at that time.

07:56 This was mostly agricultural land.

07:59 It was all talahin.

08:01 That part of the Capitol could also be one of the easiest places to dump bodies

08:07 because nobody would see them.

08:09 We do not know who they are.

08:10 If we could determine the age of the remains, we would probably relate it.

08:15 There were people who simply violated the law.

08:19 If they happened in the 1970s or in the 1980s,

08:23 in the 1970s, the NPAs were also very active here.

08:26 So it is possible that atrocities committed by people resulted into bodies dumped there, etc.

08:33 They can be NPAs or they can be kettle rustlers.

08:38 The Philippine Constabulary, they were also very active at that time to fight the insurgents.

08:43 On this side, the bones of people were found.

08:47 As of now, the construction is still ongoing here.

08:50 We will see if they can still find human skeletons.

08:54 Have you found human bones?

08:57 No, ma'am.

08:58 No? What did you find today?

09:00 Only bones.

09:02 Despite this, they are still careful in their search.

09:08 Even if they find other bones that can be found here.

09:13 Our past has secrets that are deep in the search.

09:24 It is also time to expose the truth.

09:28 As of now, the local police will continue to investigate the truth behind the bones.

09:37 If the land here in Capitolio can be spoken of,

09:42 many secrets will be revealed.

09:46 I am Lilian Tiburcio, with a brigade of NPAs.

09:51 Together with a brigade.

09:53 We will find out.

09:55 [Music]

10:17 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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