00:00Authorities obtained a search warrant to sweep a room at the Ayan Hotel in Baguio where former
00:05Public Works Undersecretary Kathy Cabral was checked in before her death. The search seeks
00:10to shed light on Cabral's activities before her life ended. Earlier, an autopsy report released
00:16by the police December 20 determined that Cabral died due to blunt traumatic injury consistent with
00:21a fall. An autopsy helps investigators determine the cause and matter of Cabral's death. Cabral's
00:26family initially refused an autopsy on Friday but agreed the following day. Meantime, the Department
00:32of the Interior and local government has ordered the relief of Benguet's police chief and Tubatown's
00:37police head for quote, mishandling the investigation. DILG chief John Brick-Rimuglia said in the presser,
00:44Cabral's gadgets were not turned over to the authorities but to the family.
00:48It was a crime scene so there were lapses on the part of the investigators
00:55She was found unconscious near Buwed River along Cannon Road in Benguet on Thursday,
01:05December 18. She was pronounced dead at 12-3 in the morning on Friday, December 19. Former DPWH
01:12Undersecretary Roberto Bernardo alleged that Cabral was the main operator of the kickback system in the
01:17public works department.
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