GEN. TINIO, Nueva Ecija – Graduation season entails celebration which students themselves would initiate. But beware, police said Tuesday.
Chief Insp. Restituto Reyes, chief of police here, said students must be cautious enough in going to rivers without their guardians with them.
Reyes aired this concern after a graduating high school student, identified as Reyven Pabustan, 16, from Barangay Rio Chico of this town, was drowned in a supposed picnic with 13 other classmates in Minalungao National Park over the weekend.
Investigation showed Pabustan and his friends went to the river, situated in the tri-boundaries of Gen. Tinio, Gapan City and Bulacan, on board a van on Saturday to celebrate in advance their graduation.
At about 6:30 p.m., however, Pabustan defied the call of his companions for them to go home and instead told them to see him making his last dive.
“Nang bumagsak sa tubig, akala ng mga kaibigan niya ay parang kumakaway-kaway pa siya. Akala ng mga kaibigan niya ay nagbibiro pa siya pero nawala na,” said Vilma Pabustan, the victim’s mother.
Prior to that dive, she said his son went inside a cave inside the mountain park.
“Galing daw siya sa kuweba…parang may maligno yata dun,” she said quoting the companions of the victim, her eldest.
She recalled her son was planning to take a mass communication course since the latter dreams to work as a broadcaster.
Reyes noted the students went to the river without the knowledge of their parents. The water, he said, was not as clear as its usual condition and its current stronger because of the rains the previous night.
Chief Insp. Restituto Reyes, chief of police here, said students must be cautious enough in going to rivers without their guardians with them.
Reyes aired this concern after a graduating high school student, identified as Reyven Pabustan, 16, from Barangay Rio Chico of this town, was drowned in a supposed picnic with 13 other classmates in Minalungao National Park over the weekend.
Investigation showed Pabustan and his friends went to the river, situated in the tri-boundaries of Gen. Tinio, Gapan City and Bulacan, on board a van on Saturday to celebrate in advance their graduation.
At about 6:30 p.m., however, Pabustan defied the call of his companions for them to go home and instead told them to see him making his last dive.
“Nang bumagsak sa tubig, akala ng mga kaibigan niya ay parang kumakaway-kaway pa siya. Akala ng mga kaibigan niya ay nagbibiro pa siya pero nawala na,” said Vilma Pabustan, the victim’s mother.
Prior to that dive, she said his son went inside a cave inside the mountain park.
“Galing daw siya sa kuweba…parang may maligno yata dun,” she said quoting the companions of the victim, her eldest.
She recalled her son was planning to take a mass communication course since the latter dreams to work as a broadcaster.
Reyes noted the students went to the river without the knowledge of their parents. The water, he said, was not as clear as its usual condition and its current stronger because of the rains the previous night.
