Thursday, September 13, 2012
CEBU CITY (Updated with corrections) -- Two Grade 8 students of the Cebu International School (CIS) were confirmed dead after a swimming accident in Bataan on Wednesday.
CIS identified the students as Jae Hak (James) Jung and Kyle Weckman, both Grade 8 students. They were in Bataan for the annual celebration of the Philippine's week.
Weckman is the grandson of former Cebu representative Jose R. Gullas. The victim's mother, Jackie, is the daughter of Gullas, also board chairman of The Freeman, a Cebu newspaper. The former congressman is brother of incumbent Representative Eduardo Gullas (1st district, Cebu).
Weckman's body will arrive in Cebu Thursday night.
Weckman was reported missing Wednesday while swimming at Kariukan Falls in sitio Kanawan, *****g, Bataan. His body was found and identified Thursday.
Jung, on the other hand, was fatally injured while swimming near the waterfall, CIS superintendent Deidre Fisher said in a statement posted on the CIS website,
www.cis.edu.ph
Field trips of other grade levels have been cancelled as of Wednesday.
As of this posting, Jung's body is at a funeral home in Makati, Manila. His parents are due to arrive from Korea on Thursday.
Classmates of Weckman and Jung are now en route from Bataan to Manila to catch an afternoon flight to Cebu. All grade school students who are out of Cebu City are scheduled to be back in Cebu Thursday and Friday. (Sunnex)
CORRECTION:
The accident happened not in Subic as earlier reported but in *****g, Bataan.
2 Cebu International School students die in swimming accident | Sun.Star
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kaluoy pod tawn.. kuyaw man jud nang mga waterfalls mag swimming2x ba. kusog kaayo ang current ana. apo pa rabang Gullas..