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By Julie M. Aurelio
Philippine Daily Inquirer

A defense lawyer in the Maguindanao massacre case Thursday raised the possibility that metal fragments recovered from two victims did not come from bullets but were surgical implants.

Lawyer Paris Real posed this question Thursday to Dr. Ruperto Sumbilon, a forensic expert of the National Bureau of Investigation who conducted the autopsies on the cadavers of Rasul Daud and Norton Edsa, two of the 56 victims of the Nov. 23, 2009 massacre.

In his testimony on his autopsy of the two victims on Wednesday, Sumbilon told Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes the two had died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Real asked Sumbilon if, not being a ballistician, he could tell with certainty if the supposed metal fragments were from bullets or surgical implants.

“I am not a ballistician,” Sumbilon answered.

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tsk tsk tsk, "possibility that metal fragments recovered from two victims did not come from bullets but were surgical implants.."

oh yes, the patients would elect to have metal fragments installed in their bodies (and in the process probably acquire tetanus toxins...), before their untimely deaths.

oh yes, i see the logistics in that. 

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