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Friday, June 01, 2007
Bus robbery sets off car chase: 5 killed
MANILA -- Six armed men boarded a bus in the Philippine capital Thursday and started robbing passengers, a folly that led to the deaths of three suspects, the bus driver, and a passenger, officials said.
The robbers boarded the bus in Manila's financial district of Makati, and declared a holdup along the capital's main thoroughfare, Quezon City police director Senior Superintendent Magtanggol Gatdula said.
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One of the passengers alerted the police by a mobile phone text message, but when police officers tried to stop the bus at a roadblock, the robbers fatally shot the driver and a passenger, Gatdula said.
The suspects then took three bus passengers hostage and commandeered another vehicle, heading to suburban Valenzuela city with police cars chasing them along the four-lane North Luzon Expressway.
Gatdula said flat tires forced them to stop, and the robbers and hostages ran toward a row of houses, where waiting police officers managed to rescue the three passengers.
The suspects then scaled a wall and seized another vehicle, a dump truck, but three of them were shot dead by police snipers, Gatdula said. The three other suspects were arrested, he said. (AP)For more Philippine news, visit Sun.Star Zamboanga. (June 1, 2007 issue)
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