Veco personnel at the scene of the robbery in the power company's office in Mandaue City. (Sun.Star Cebu/Allan Cuizon)
CEBU CITY -- Three men wearing Veco uniforms-complete with identification cards and hard hats-barged inside a branch of the Visayan Electric Co. (Veco) on M.C. Briones Highway in Mandaue City Monday afternoon and made off with P1.75 million in less than five minutes.
MANILA -- Powerful Typhoon Paeng (international codename: Cimaron) battered the northern Philippines on Monday, killing at least 13 people in a barrage of landslides, uprooted trees and flooding, officials said.
DAVAO CITY -- The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Southern Mindanao and National Capital Region arrested two men and confiscated fake bills amounting to US$658,000 or P33.8 million.
BAGUIO CITY -- Police are tracking down three men who allegedly abducted a girl in Manila and who imprisoned her in a warehouse in La Trinidad, Benguet over the weekend.