Parents of missing UP students rush to Bulacan 'gravesite'

Parents of two missing University of the Philippines (UP) students rushed to Bulacan province Friday after getting word their daughters may have been buried there. The parents, accompanied by militant human rights group Karapatan, went to Hagonoy town where the gravesite supposedly yielded still-unidentified bodies. UP students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño disappeared shortly after going to Central Luzon to research the plight of poor farmers in the area last month. "I will accept it if one of the bodies is that of my daughter. If not, we'll just continue our search for her. I hope whoever is responsible for the abduction of my daughter will come out and give information," a crying Linda Cadapan, Sherlyn's mother, told GMA 7's DZBB. Bulacan and nearby provinces in Central Luzon are known hotbeds of the communist New People's Army (NPA). Ruth Cervantes, deputy secretary general of Karapatan, said her group has started a fact-finding investigation into the incident. She said her group received information Thursday night that three bodies were uncovered in a suspected gravesite in Hagonoy town. "When we received the information, we informed their parents and they accompanied us to Bulacan," she said.-GMANews.TV