Police Senior Inspector Joel Laraya said Vergara, 32, was rescued at the Biak na Bundok area of the Malarayat Range in Batangas province with injuries sustained from a “shot gun trap for wild animals.”
“He is now undergoing first aid medication,” Laraya said.
The police official did not elaborate on the injuries Vergara sustained, but according to Daryl Comagon, one of the rescuers, Vergara "had eight pellet wounds on his left leg.”
“We had to carry him in a hammock," Comagon said in a report on PinoyMountaineer.com.
According to an official police report, Vergara left home in Calauan, Laguna, with seven other mountaineers last Sunday afternoon and headed to Lipa City to climb Mt. Malipuño. The group went down on the same day, but Vergara chose to stay behind.
After three days, Vergara's father Jess went to the Lipa City Police Station to report his son was missing.
Laraya said two search and rescue teams composed of police personnel and rescue volunteers were formed to locate Vergara. The teams were dispatched at 8 a.m. Thursday.
Source:GMAnews
