Robbers storm Philippine bank

Robbers storm Philippine bank

MANILA (AFP): Gunmen wounded three people in a botched bank
raid in the Philippine capital yesterday, press and radio reports
said.

The six-member gang fled in three commandeered vehicles after
scooping up cash from the tellers' counters after they failed to
open the bank's vault.

It was the second bank robbery in a week in the Philippine
capital. Injured in the raid were a bank teller, a private
security guard and a customer. They were all admitted to
hospital.

Superintendent Ricardo de Leon, head of Manila's central
police district, said the robbers got only a "few thousand pesos"
from the Philippine Commercial Industrial Bank branch, but a bank
employee in a radio interview estimated the haul at two million
pesos (US$83,000).