CEBU CITY, Phils (PNA) – A man who attempted to kill himself by jumping off the old Mandaue-Mactan Bridge last Wednesday night, instead landed on and killed a fisherman in the waters below.
Police said one Aniano Berdin, 30, of Barangay Babag Lapu-Lapu City, jumped off the bridge.
Unknown to him, Danilo Sison, 59, a resident of Barangay Pajo, Lapu-Lapu City, was spearfishing in the waters below.
Berdin landed squarely on Sison who had just emerged from the sea.
A rescue team brought Sison to the nearby Mactan Doctors hospital but he died a few minutes after arrival.
Berdin, the would-be suicide, only suffered a bruise in the right eye.
Lapu-Lapu City Police chief Rey Lyndon Lawas said Berdin, who is reportedly suffering from a mental problem, is now detained in Police Station 3 in Barangay Gun-ob.
Lawas said they are still waiting for the death certificate of the victim so they can file homicide charges against Berdin.
Last year, Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia pleaded with the public not to carry out suicide attempts in any of the two bridges after three suicide attempts in a span of a month. (PNA)
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