Rookie policeman Anthony Belarma Heredia, 27, died in a road accident a few hours after helping secure the presidential visit in southern Cebu last Tuesday.
Heredia, who is from Nalhub, Dalaguete, and a member of the Special Weapons of Tactics team of the Sibonga-based Regional Public Safety Battalion, drove the Toyota Innova of his girlfriend when it crashed into the road railings, rammed into a public comfort room before it fell into a 10-foot ravine at the national highway of Candagit, Sibonga town at past 9 p.m. on Tuesday.
Sibonga police investigator SP01 Jaime Mendoza said Heredia’s companion, Dexter Cabie, 32, from Minglanilla, also died of severe head injuries.
Heredia’s and Cabie’s girlfriends sustained minor injuries and survived.