8 bank employees and 1 guard killed in bank robbery

[mango]

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080516/...s_bank_robbery

By OLIVER TEVES, Associated Press Writer




MANILA, Philippines - At least eight bank employees and a security guard were lined up and shot dead in the head Friday in a bloody Philippine bank robbery, police said. Another employee was in critical condition at a hospital.


The victims were found sprawled out on the floor of a branch of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. in the town of Cabuyao in Laguna province, south of Manila, after customers alerted authorities when the bank failed to open as scheduled, said chief police Superintendent Ricardo Padilla.

"This is the handiwork of the devil and we will not let this pass," Padilla said. "They were killed in a gangland-style execution. Each of the victims shot in the head while lined up."

He said two security guards were missing, leading authorities to suspect they were involved in the robbery. It was not immediately clear how much money was stolen.

Padilla said the robbers could have used silencers, because residents in the area heard no gunshots coming from the bank.

Bank Vice President Edwin Ermita told The Associated Press the assailants tried to hide the body of the security guard under a tarpaulin in the rear of the bank.

Laguna provincial police chief, Felipe Rojas, said a vehicle owned by one of the bank employees was used by the robbers to escape. It was later recovered several miles away and will be checked for fingerprints, he said.

He said the victims, including two inside the open bank vault, were shot point-blank.

Empty handgun shells were recovered on the bank floor, and a shotgun believed to be owned by the slain security guard was found outside, he said.

Bank robberies are common but rarely as deadly in the Philippines. Rojas said this was the worst in the country's history.

[francoise07]

tsk...tsk..tsk..
another sad news..

[godsaint]

It's time to bring back death penalty.

[mango]

I smell inside job- the employees/guard probably knew the robbers.

[kazuya]

ive never heard of any bank robbery here in the Phils. that is as brutal as this...

[raul julia]

tsk.tsk.tsk..ngano pusilon pa man gyud..

[BloomerBeak]

luuya pud woi.. *sob

[lestat1116]

pinsa US na style no witness. naa mani sa discovery

[ngano-diay?]

sus ginoo unsa na ni. agree ko balik na giod ni and silya electrica.

[SPRINGFIELD_XD_40]

the reason ngano patyon nila ang victims kay tapulan sila mag taptap , obviously the victims will recognize them kung buhi sila so execution style na lang gyud . Kuwang ra na ang silya elektrika , WATER CURE angay ana nila !!!