Local and foreign tourists crowd Boracay's beachfront. Ivy Jean Vibar, ABS-CBN News, file

MANILA — Boracay is safe despite the discovery in an abandoned chapel of the body of a Slovak tourist reported missing last week, regional police said.

Michaela Mickova, 23, had been reported missing last Tuesday and found the next day in an area behind the beachfront.

Speaking to Teleradyo Serbisyo on Sunday, Police Brig. Gen. Jack Wanky, director of Police Regional Office 6, said police consider Mickova's disappearance and death an isolated case and that they are working to solve the case as soon as possible.

"This is the first time. Saka hindi naman talaga nangyayari — wala naman talagang ganitong mga pangyayari (This is not something that really happens there)," he said, citing police records on the popular resort island.

Slovak woman found dead at abandoned chapel in Boracay

"Walang ganoong insidente in the past. Ngayon lang po nangyari (There were no similar incidents in the past, this is the first time)."

He said police already have one person of interest in custody, although that person was arrested in a separate drug buy-bust. Authorities are also looking for other people Mickova was last seen with.

In the meantime, he said, police are building up a case for eventual filing.

"Actually, ang kapulisan natin they are really doing their best. Alam nila kung gaano ka-fragile yung situation sa Boracay. Anything na mangyari gaya niyan relating sa peace and order, ay talagang malaki ang effect," he said.

(Actually, the police are doing their best. They know that the situation on Boracay is fragile. Anything that happens, especially those related to peace and order, has a large effect on tourism)

He added there are enough police officers on the island but that putting up more CCTV cameras would help them keep Boracay safer.

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Stakeholders on the island have also pledged a reward of up to P500,000 for information leading to the arrest of people linked to the incident, he said.

Mickova was in the Philippines to attend a friend's wedding when she was reported missing last Tuesday. 

Police said she may have been robbed because a belt bag where she kept her camera and mobile phone has been reported missing. 

Wanky addeed she may have been sexually abused, based on autopsy findings.

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