ILOILO – Two employees of Lalac hardware store based in Calinog, Iloilo were robbed yesterday afternoon in Barangay Agdahon, Passi City.
Joan Sequito, 39, of Barangay Hilwan, Calinog and Cherry Tabilid, 36, of Barangay Delgado, Calinog were supposed to deposit Lalac’s P1.5 million in a bank in Passi City.
Around 1 p.m. when both hardware employees were on their way to the bank onboard a motorcycle that Sequito was driving, a motorcycle crashed into them.
Sequito and Tabilid fell from their motorcycle. One of the men on the motorcycle that hit them quickly grabbed the hardware employees’ backpack where the money was kept, then both unidentified men left immediately.
“It appeared that the robbers knew about the huge sums of money in the bag,” said Police Lieutenant Colonel Dennis Pamunag, Passi City police chief.
The Passi City police launched an investigation.
Pamunag did not discount the possibility that the robbery was an inside job./PN
