By NITZ ARANCON and
JOEY NACALABAN
Correspondents
CITY hall rescuers yesterday stopped a lesbian from killing herself because her partner left her for a man.
Authorities gave conflicting details about the would-be suicide — the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Department named her as Jessa “Yayang” Tambale, 20, while the police identified her as Jessa Dianne Waga, 18.
Tambale, who is from Barangay Carmen, would have leaped to her death from the JR Borja Bridge at around 4 am had not members of city hall’s Urban Search and Rescue (Usar) talked her out of it.
Nick Jabagat, CDRRMO chief, said it took rescuers an hour to convince Tambale not to commit suicide. They used a boom truck borrowed from the Cagayan Electric Power and Light Co. to reach Tambale who climbed the steel bridge.
The Roads and Traffic Administration (RTA) closed the bridge to vehicular traffic during the negotiations.
Tambale, crying, was brought down using the Cepalco truck past 5 am.
She told rescuers she attempted to commit suicide because her partner, Jeehans or Jane, left her for a man.
Tambale said she saw Jeehans, a bar worker, and her former boyfriend the night before. They were, Tambale said, “sweet na sweet.”
“Nasakitan kaayo ko kay ako gud siyang gihigugma unya karon, iyang kong pulihan sa iyang ex-,” Tambale said.
Tambale and Jeehans have children. When they decided to live together, Tambale said she loved Jeehan’s child like her own.
“Apil iyang anak akong gi-atiman tungod sa akong pagmahal niya,” said Tambale in between sobs.
At the Carmen police station where she was brought, Tambale gave this message for Jeehans: “Hina-ot pa unta nga mahalon ka nianang lalaki nga imong gipuli sa ako nga mas labaw pa sa among pagmahal sa imo.”
Jeehans, in a separate interview, denied that she and her former boyfriend have reunited. What happened, she said, was that her ex-boyfriend was a customer at the bar where she was working, and he requested that she joined him in the table.
She said she decided to call it quits because in the three years that she and Tambale lived together, she was allegedly battered.
“Iya kong pasakitan, nag-antos sa iya,” Jeehans said.
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