Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio attends the flag-raising ceremony at Davao City Hall on Monday, Sept. 5, 2016. Davao City Information Office/Released
DAVAO CITY — Three days after the Roxas night market blast in Davao City, Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio lost two of the triplets she was carrying.
At the change of command ceremony at the Task Force Davao office at 10 a.m. todayT, Duterte-Carpio said she lost twins but luckily enough, the other one is “still fighting for life.”
“When I went for a check up last Monday, the doctor said the identical twins don’t have heartbeats anymore,” Duterte said.
When the mayor was busy visiting the wake of the victims of the explosion on Monday dawn, she said she was already feeling a bit ill.
Her physician then sadly informed the fetal demise of the identical twins in her triplets pregnancy.
On Aug. 19, City Information Office (CIO) head Jeffrey Tupas announced her pregnancy was the reason behind her series of leaves of absence.
Her physician had advised her to “avoid crowded places to lessen the chances of acquiring infections.”
But after the Roxas blast late evening on Sept. 2, the mayor was back on her foot monitoring the injured as well as the families of the 14 who died from the bombing.
During the ceremony earlier, the mayor asked new Task Force Davao Commander Colonel Erwin Bernard Neri to give her “peace of mind for nine months for the safety of the entire city and her child.”
“Colonel Neri, kindly give me peace of mind for the next nine months, although I have six more months of my pregnancy, but consider this day as my first day. Please do not kill him (child in her womb),” she pleaded.
