Lauro Vizconde suffers cardiac arrest at Parañaque home

Lauro Vizconde, the migrant worker who lost his wife and two daughters to a massacre in the early 90s, suffered a fourth cardiac arrest on Friday.

According to Dante Jimenez, the founding chairman of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption, Vizconde is now at the intensive care unit of the Unihealth-Parañaque Hospital.

Vizconde, 80, lost his wife Estrelita, 49, and daughters Carmela, 18, and Jennifer, 6, after they were all stabbed to death at their home in Parañaque on June 30, 1991.

Carmela was also raped.

Vizconde, who was in the United States on a business trip when the crime happened, has since been an anti-crime advocate alongside Jimenez and other families of victims of heinous crimes.

Several men, including former Senator Freddie Webb's son Hubert, were put on trial and were convicted of the crime in 2000.

The Supreme Court, however, overturned the decision in 2010 and acquitted all of the convicts, who had been detained since 1995. -Rie Takumi/NB, GMA News