PAGADIAN CITY – Police were hunting down 5 gunmen who held up a provincial bus on Monday in Siay town in Zamboanga del Sur province in southern Philippines.
Police said one of the passengers, an army soldier – Corporal Rogelio Baman – shot and wounded one of the gunmen while escaping, but he had been rescued by his companions, who fled on two motorcycles.
It said the robbery occurred in the village of Mirangan after two armed men, who posed as passengers, announced the stick up. Three other gunmen on motorcycles tailing the bus – owned by Rural Transit of Mindanao – joined the heist.
The robbers took off with the passengers’ money and valuables, police said. (Mindanao Examiner)
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