Source: http://beta.ph.news.yahoo.com/star/20080712/tph-armed-para-aque-vault-b9426e6.html
Two security guards were wounded when seven unidentified armed men attacked and robbed an armored van of more than P3 million just outside the Market! Market! Mall in Taguig City yesterday morning.
The police identified the victims as Samuel Cacho, 40; and Rene Boy Pader, 24, who were rushed to the Ospital ng Makati for treatment. Cacho is a security escort for the armored van, which was scheduled to load money into Chinabank's automated teller machines at the mall.
Pader, who works for the Bonifacio Security Services Inc., is supposed to ensure peace and order in the complex.
Superintendent Vicente Ramoran, chief of Police Community Precinct 7, said the incident happened around 10:45 a.m. as the armored van (ZEG-577) was parked near the mall.
Witnesses said the robbers arrived in two vehicles, a gray van and a mint-green Toyota Tamaraw FX. Witnesses were able to note part of the FX's license plate was 698.
The suspects shot at the security guards and commandeered the van, which was driven by Dory de Rojo. The van was later found abandoned somewhere in Fort Bonifacio.
Chinabank teller Kim Alvarez told police investigators he had just loaded money in some of the bank's ATMs at the mall's second floor when he heard gunshots. The shootout lasted for five minutes.
Taguig police chief Superintendent Alfred Sotto Corpus said the suspects took the money but left De Rojo unhurt.
Corpus said chokepoints have been set up at all entry and exit points all over the Fort Bonifacio area to prevent any robbery attempts on business establishments.
"We have already received reports that notorious bank robbery groups are already targeting some establishments here at Fort Bonifacio. We are setting up these security stations as a precaution," he said.
Ramoran said that due to the robbery, they are set to beef up security measures in the area. "We will now be deploying additional police force that will help man the Global City premises," he said. - Rhodina Villanueva/Philstar
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Im so curious how dare the robbers rob the armored van?. when I see the van, it is a perfect creature. No wonder, money is more powerful than the fear.
After reading this, I have to say that even though Fort Bonifacio is a very peaceful place for me, it's need of security has just risen. I believe that since it's surrounded by army bases, the government should make good use of them and patrol the areas to prevent something like this from happening. It's a miracle only a couple people were hurt and I was surprised no innocent people were hurt but there needs to be a dire increase in security from now on, we shouldn't wait for something serious or bad to happen, we must step up now!
haha.. im just wondering of the nerve of some people who try ro do these things. i mean. they DID make ARMORED vans so that they would be harder to rob and they would be safe right? then how come some people even DARE rob an armored van? haha..
it makes me think that these people not only planned to earn money, but also gain that sense of fulfillment that they were able to rob a supposedly safe armored car.
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Criminals nowadays are very intelligent (I guess) because they can do almost any crime whenever they want to (I think) and wherever they want to (I assume). Even robbing an ARMORED VAN. Woot. That's not something you see or hear everyday. A van made of armor as I see it was robbed. The criminals get rich, the lazy police don't mind, and our world just gets dangerous and dangerous. Well, that's the truth.
People today have gotten even better in doing mischief in order for them to get money. This is, because living in this world has now become a hard thing. Even armored vans, which are fully secured, can be robbed because of the different discovered techniques of the Filipinos. As they continue to do this, people become bad and we continue to live in caution whether we will be affected or not. It's a going concern.
This robbery is an inside job. An employee of the bank might be the informant and may be the mastermind of this incident. Robbers will not know the schedule of the delivery of cash without the help of an insider.
Tsk tsk...crimes nowadays become worse and worse...
Criminals nowadays are very good in doing mischief to merely get money. I think that they are just resulting to do these things because it is very hard to earn money already.
I think that bankc, stores, etc. should add more security because the criminals nowadays arae everywhere and are very good in doing the things they are good at.
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