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A 17-year-old boy was found hanging by the neck in his house in barangay Bangkal, Lapu-Lapu City at dawn Saturday.
The dead boy was found by his mother under their house.
An electrical cord was tied around his neck and the other end was tied to the bamboo slats of the house?s elevated flooring, a height of about eight feet, said PO3 Candido Barenque of the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office.
Police have recommended an autopsy to determine the cause of death and whether foul play was involved.
The teenager was last seen in a drinking session with friends.
The boy?s parents told police their son started acting strangely after he told them he found a ring a few days back.
The boy claimed that the ring gave him extra strength.
After his revelation, the parents said they noticed the teenager behaving unusually.
He was more hotheaded and depressed in recent days.
The parents said the boy explained that he was depressed because he failed to complete a task that would ?give him additional powers?.
On Friday night, the boy asked money from his parents and had a drinking session with friends.
The mother said she didn?t notice her son come home.
She went out of the house looking for him only to find him hanging by the neck under their house about 2 a.m.
In Moalboal, southwestern Cebu, a 75-year-old woman was also found dead hanging by the neck in her house in barangay Tunga on Friday morning.
Esperanza Macasling was found by her neighbor Crisanto Macasol seated on the floor with a rope tied around her neck and the other end tied to one of the beams of the house, said PO3 Remberto Penado of the Moalboal police.
The victim lived in the house alone and had been suffering from a nervous breakdown.
Police said the victim was heard threatening to commit suicide because of a medical ailment.
Police said there were no signs of foul play in the death of the woman./WITH a report from CORRESPONDENT FE MARIE D. DUMABOC
