Monday, November 27, 2006 Trio robs, injures widow, 60
THREE men armed with long firearms and a knife barged into a house in a mountain barangay in Alcantara town and robbed a widow of her belongings last Friday night.
Bernalda Erojo, 60, suffered injuries to the face and upper portion of the left eye after one of the robbers allegedly struck her with a gun.
Erojo and daughter Daisy, 20, were inside their house in Barangay Lawaan when the men arrived around 8:30 p.m. They only saw Bernalda, and told her that they were robbing her.
When Bernalda replied that she had no money, one man put his hands around her neck and choked her.
Another hit her with the butt of a gun.
Hearing her mother’s screams, Daisy ran out the back door to call their neighbors for help.
Long way from town
When she came back, the men already left with their P2,000 cash, a guitar, a .25 airgun and a fighting cock.
Her mother was alone and injured.
Bernalda was taken to the Badian District Hospital for treatment. Lawaan is eight kilometers from the town proper, and Bernalda’s house is a long walk from the barangay road.
The police said the men could not be identified, as they covered their faces with cloth.
In a telephone interview, PO1 Herbert Lamosao told Sun.Star Cebu that they still had no leads as to who the men were.
He could not say if communist rebels could be behind the robbery because of the use of long firearms. He, however, said the town did not have an insurgency problem.
Townsfolk, though, once reported the presence of heavily armed men roaming the mountains of Alcantara.
“Wa man sad kuno mohunong. Dugay-dugay na pod to (But the men reportedly just passed by. And that was some time ago),” he added. (MEA)
