CABUYAO, Laguna – Nine bank employees and a security guard were lined up and shot dead yesterday in what police described as one of the bloodiest bank robberies in history.
Nine of the victims were found sprawled on
the floor of a branch of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) in
Barangay Pulo here, after the bank failed to open as scheduled at 9
a.m., triggering the suspicion of customers who alerted the police,
according to Calabarzon regional police director Chief Superintendent
Ricardo Padilla.
The 10th victim, also a ranking employee of
the bank, succumbed to gunshot wounds in the head while being treated at
the St. James Hospital.