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Employees of the City Garden Hotel in Makati were allegedly “slow” in helping Christine Dacera, a friend of the late flight attendant said on Friday, January 8.

“They were quite slow, while we were already panicking,” Clark Rapinan said in an interview on ANC.

Rapinan is one of Dacera’s friends whom police had tagged as among the suspects in the case despite an incomplete investigation into Dacera’s death. Three other suspects who were earlier detained by police had been released as police did not present evidence to back up their allegations of rape with homicide.

Rapinan recalled calling for hotel employees to help them revive Dacera after they tried performing CPR on her.

He said that the employees who arrived did not immediately perform CPR on Dacera and transported her through a wheelchair to the hotel’s clinic where another employee performed CPR on her.

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According to the initial police report on the case, Dacera could not be brought immediately to the hospital because there was no ambulance available.

The hotel employees tried to request for a vehicle from the barangay hall of Poblacion but “none came,” the police report said.

Hotel employees and Dacera’s friends by themselves rushed her to the hospital, where she was declared dead on arrival.

The City Garden Hotel is already under fire for allowing its rooms to be used for leisure, prompting the Department of Tourism to demand an explanation from hotel management.

Rappler reached out to City Garden Hotel on Friday to get its response to Rapinan’s claim but a hotel staff member, who declined to give his name and his department in the hotel, said they will issue a statement at a later date. This story will be updated once they release their statement. – Rappler.com