AN elderly physician and a dive club president reportedly drowned on Tuesday morning after his group encountered difficulties while exploring an underwater cave in a remote village in Surigao del Sur, police reports said on Thursday.

Reports to the Philippine National Police national operations Center in Camp Crame identified the victim as Dr. Alfonso Amores alias “Doc Boy”, 67, the president of the Filipino Cave Divers Association and resident of Gon-ob, Lapu-lapu City.

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