A 20-year-old student died yesterday after he was mauled allegedly by at least four members of the 6th Regional Mobile Group in the city in a kiosk at San Juan Street, Bacolod City Tuesday midnight.

Sion David Iraque Geocadin, of Purok 2, Brgy. Garganto, Hinigaran town in Negros Occidental and temporarily staying in Purok Pag-asa, Brgy. Villamonte, Bacolod City and a junior student of STI College taking up Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, came home at about 3 a.m. Thursday with black eyes and hematomas in different parts of his body, his landlady Monina Sangria, said.

She said she rushed Geocadin to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital at about 11 a.m. Thursday morning because of spontaneous vomiting.

Geocadin, however, died at the hospital at about 4 a.m. yesterday, she added.

Meanwhile, Geocadin's companion, who requested not to be named, said he and Geocadin met at the Bacolod public plaza and later decided to drink. He said they ordered four bottles of beer and paid for them. However, a kiosk employee complained that they failed to pay for the fifth bottle they had ordered. They denied ordering this, and an altercation resulted.

Later, a commotion took place when Geocadin and the kiosk employee grappled with each other. Some members of the 6th RMG arrived and pacified them.

He said he and Geocadin were dragged by the RMG troopers to Police Precinct 1. He said Geocadin told him he was boxed by at least four members of the 6th RMG.

He said he could not identify who among the uniformed men had mauled him and Geocadin, but he is sure they were members of the 6th RMG because of they wore camouflage uniforms.

He said they complained to the police and Geocadin reported that he lost his Nokia 3530 cellphone worth P3,000.

Meanwhile, Ignacio Geocadin, father of Sion David, said the son's remains will be subjected to an autopsy to determine the cause of his death. He said he will seek police assistance to get justice for his son who must have died of internal hemorrhage because of the intensity of the mauling.

Alda Salavante, principal of the Pahilanga National High School in Hinigaran and an aunt of Sion David, said her nephew was suffering from hemophilia, a coagulation disorder, in which the blood fails to clot normally because of a deficiency or abnormality of one of the clotting factors.*DMG

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