By Marisol Bo-oc | 07:10 PM April 13, 2024
Tagbilaran City police are still investigating after a man and his companion were discovered dead inside a tent on Saturday morning, April 13, 2024.
The casualties were identified as Sylvian Florian Delaitre, 39, a French national, and Jennifer Cornelio, 30, a native of San Fernando, Cebu.
They were found dead inside the camping tent they set up at an empty lot of a private subdivision where they lived in Barangay Bool.
In a report, police said the bodies were found by a concerned citizen who then reported it to Tagbilaran City Police at around 7:20 a.m.
Upon the arrival of responding officers, they saw the bodies of two individuals inside a camping tent set up in a vacant lot of the subdivision.
There was a strong chemical smell inside tent.
Investigators recovered a container of muriatic acid and a pail of chemical believed to be hydrogen sulfide.
Authorities are looking into the possibility that the pair died due to chemical poisoning.
