 One version of the story says he was executed by the Japanese in Bacnotan, La Union.In another version of the story, on March 8, 1945, during the closing days of the war, Marcos was found to be a Japanese collaborator and died in La Union at the hands of Philippine guerrillas related to his former political rival Julio Nalundasan who tied each of his hands to a carabao.The two carabaos were then whipped to run in opposite directions.