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source: PNA.gov.ph

A Korean woman and a Japanese man died some two hours apart while snorkeling in the waters off Olango Island, Lapu Lapu City and Pandanon Island, Bohol Saturday afternoon.

Hours earlier, two fishermen from Tayud, Consolacion also found the body of an unidentified man floating in the waters off Barangay Buaya, Lapu-Lapu City.

A fourth death that may have been by drowning was reported in Carmen, Cebu last Friday afternoon, where a woman was fished out of the water where she was earlier seen struggling.

According to the Homicide Section of the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office, Hyo Cim Ahn, 63, was snorkeling with 19 fellow Koreans in Bartangay Talima, Olango Island past noon Saturday.

The tourists were staying at the Crown Regency Hotel on Osmeña Blvd., Cebu City.

They went snorkeling and island-hopping with three Filipino photographers and three boatmen.

When their boat arrived in Talima around 12:30 p.m., Ahn jumped into the water first, the police said.

A few minutes later, Harry Tejedor, one of the photographers, saw Ahn’s body floating.

They hoisted her into the boat and brought her to the Mactan Doctors’ Hospital but she was pronounced dead on arrival.

At past 2 p.m. Saturday, Japanese national Kenji Inamasu, 39, was taken to the Mactan Doctors’ Hospital by the emergency Rescue Unit Foundation but he, too, was declared dead on arrival.

According to the police, Inamasu went to Pandanon Island with three fellow Japanese, a Filipina friend named Therese Padilla, and three boatmen.

Padilla, 28, told police that Inamasu was snorkeling but they later saw him floating, with his face down in the water.

When they turned him over, they saw him frothing at the mouth.

Inamasu, who came from Tokyo, arrived in the Philippines last Sept. 19.

The police said the man’s body will be submitted for autopsy.

Around 8:30 a.m., also on Saturday, two fishermen from Barangay Tayud, Consolacion found the body of an unidentified man floating in the waters off Barangay Buaya, Lapu-Lapu City.

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