Wounded Italian: I’ll return to watch Sinulog

THE 67-year-old Italian national, Michele Loungo, said he would return to Cebu to watch the Sinulog Grand Parade, despite being shot and wounded by robbers last Thursday morning.

Loungo said he was still happy to watch the Sinulog on television inside the hospital.

He said he hoped he would experience it the next time on the streets, but he would be more vigilant.

He said he was here in Cebu to visit his fiancée. He was scheduled to return to Italy by the end of the month.

Loungo was with two other Italians,  Michele Acanfora, 71, and Franco Palatacci, 62, when they were robbed outside the apartment they were staying.

They were on their way to visit Camotes Island when two armed men on a motorcycle robbed them.

Loungo resisted and was shot in the legs.

They lost a blue bag containing 5,000 euros equivalent to P360,000, plane ticket, iPhone,  P23,000 cash and necklaces.

Last Thursday evening, police arrested James Belina, 25, in Golden Valley, La Guerta, barangay Lahug. Police implicated Belina to the robbery. /Correspondent Chito O. Aragon