Businesswoman, granddaughter found dead inside Bulacan home

(Updated 11:55 a.m.) MANILA, Philippines - Police on Thursday morning discovered the bodies of a 67-year-old businesswoman and her granddaughter who were killed inside their home in Bulacan province. A radio report said investigators found businesswoman Cristina de Jesus' body riddled with stab wounds inside the store room of her liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) shop beside their house in Brgy. (village) Taliptip in Bulacan town. Meanwhile, De Jesus’s 19-year-old daughter, Carla Bernabe, was also found dead at the second floor of their house. The teenager’s body sustained a number of stab wounds, bruises and cuts, the report said. Superintendent Jesus Reyes, Bulacan tonw police chief, told radio dzBB in an interview that a concerned citizen informed them about the incident at about 7 a.m. Thursday. “Ito po ay stab wounds po at bunga ng hard objects (The victims died of stab wounds and after being hit with a hard object)," the police official said. As of this posting, operatives from the Philippine National Police’s Scene of the Crime Operations (SOCO) are still gathering evidence at the crime scene. “Kami po ay nag-iimbestiga pa. So far nangangalap kami ng witnesses para makapagturo sa suspect (We are still investigating and still inviting witnesses so that we can identify any suspect)," Reyes said. - Mark Merueñas, GMANews.TV