A suspect in the murder of two Australians and their Filipino companion last week at a hotel in a popular resort south of the Philippine capital has turned himself in, officials say.
The bodies of the victims, whose hands and feet were bound, were found stretched out on the floor in a room of the Lake Hotel in Tagaytay City a week ago.
Police said at the time that it was a rare, heinous crime in a tourist destination known for its picturesque lake-side volcano, abundant tropical fruit and the hospitality of its people.
Tagaytay police chief Charles Daven Capagcuan told the Associated Press that the breakthrough in the week-old case came when the suspect was identified by at least three hotel employees from an image captured by surveillance cameras showing part of his masked face.
The suspect’s identification eventually led him to his home province of Batangas, near Tagaytay, where he decided to turn himself in, Capagcuan said.