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By BEN SERRANO
Correspondent

BUTUAN City–A church caretaker hanged himself apparently because of depression that was aggravated by his best friend’s decision to renounce their religious beliefs, police said over the weekend.

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PO3 Anthony Echin identified the suicide as Charlito Hewe, 56, caretaker of the Free Methodist Church in  Barangay Maguinda, this city.

Police said Maribel Postego Atabay, a Free Methodist minister, told investigators that Hewe had severe depression, and was dismayed that  best friend left their church for another.

Police said the victim tired a wire around his neck.

A young son of another minister first saw the body of the church caretaker hanging lifeless at the back of the Free Methodist Church, police said.

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