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Of the eight missing persons reported to various city police stations, seven were aged below 20-years-old while one was 46-years-old.
Four of them were minors, with three aged 16-years-old from Barangay Katangawan who reportedly went missing on the same day.[]
Hernaez said it was possible that three of the four minors knew each other but investigators were still determining their connections.
“We’re looking at the family situation as well as the activities of each of them before they went missing,” she said.
The police official acknowledged that they are facing difficulty in processing the ongoing tracking since most of them were only reported missing two to three weeks after their disappearance.
She cited the case of one of them who went missing last April 2 but was only reported to the city police on April 19.[]