By FREDDIE G. LAZARO
Manila Bulletin
Hopes dimmed for a
Japanese tourist who
went missing while swimming at a beach resort Barangay Urbiztondo, here, Sunday night, even as search-and-rescue operations widened Tuesday.
Chief Inspector Marlon Peste, local police chief, said there was no sign of 54-year-old Nobory Herai, a native of Okayama City, Okayama, Japan, who was vacationing in this town with his friend and countryman Takashi Ouchi, 40.
A separate report referred to the victim’s surname as “Hitai.â€
Based on Ouchi’s statement, Peste said the two Japanese tourists arrived here Sunday afternoon from Manila.
They immediately went swimming late in the afternoon until around 7:30 p.m. when Ouchi left Herai in the water to have a cigarette at the resort’s parking lot.
Peste said that when Ouchi returned to the beach to check on his friend, Herai was already missing, prompting him to alert resort staff.
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