By SPA,
Manila : At least eight bank employees and a security guard were lined up and shot dead in the head Friday in one of the bloodiest bank robberies in the Philippines, AP quoted police as saying. One employee was in critical condition in a hospital.
The victims were found sprawled on the floor of a branch of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. in Cabuyao town in Laguna province, south of Manila, after the bank failed to open as scheduled at 9 a.m. and suspicious customers alerted authorities, Chief Superintendent Ricardo Padilla said.
This is the handiwork of the devil and we will not let this pass, Padilla said. They were killed in a gangland-style execution. Each of the victims shot in the head while lined up.
Padilla said the robbers could have used silencers because residents in the area heard no gunshots coming from the bank.
He said two security guards were missing, leading authorities to suspect they were involved in the robbery.
Another police officer, speaking on local radio, said there was no sign of forceful entry.
Padilla said another security guard was among the dead. It wasn’t clear how much money was stolen.