PAGADIAN CITY (Mindanao Examiner / July 13, 2014) – Armed men barged into a branch of LBC cargo forwarder in Pagadian City in southern Philippines and took off with P123,000, police said Sunday.
Police said the gunmen also held up customers Quinn Guatno and Aljopher Realada and other employees before escaping with their loot. It said the robbers struck at the LBC branch in Benigno Street in the village of Santa Lucia and threatened the employees and customers.
It was not immediately known if the establishment was equipped with surveillance cameras or not.
Police also reported that two men riding tandem on a motorcycle grabbed the bag of Mary Aballe, 45, in Santa Maria village also in Pagadian City. Aballe, the wife of a policeman, said she lost P1,500 and several identification cards of her husband and hers.
She said she was walking at Salazar Street near Ariosa Compound when the duo struck. (Mindanao Examiner)
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