A 23-YEAR-OLD woman was found dead and naked inside a motel in Tanay, Rizal at dawn yesterday.

Chief Insp. Rizaldy Aquino, Tanay police chief, identified her as Grace dela Cruz, of Manila East Road, Barangay Plaza Aldea, also in Tanay.

Aquino said their investigation showed that the victim checked in along with three men and occupied a room at Singapore Lodge at Sitio Bukal, Barangay Tandang Kutyo, Tanay at 3 a.m.

After several hours, lodge personnel Alma del Barrio knocked on their room but nobody answered, prompting her to open the room using a duplicate key.

She was shocked to see the victim naked and lifeless. Her three male companions  were nowhere to be found.

Police theorized that the victim could have been gang raped by the suspects before they killed her.

Personnel of the motel will be invited by the police to shed light on the victim’s death and to identify the three men who was with her before she was found dead.