Student, manager robbed

Bandits preyed on a teenage college student and an electronics company personnel manager in separate incidents,  taking a total of more than P200,000 worth of valuables, mostly gadgets, in Manila.

Reports from the Manila Police District (MPD) theft and robbery section revealed that a 17-year-old student of the College of St. Benilde was victimized Thursday evening by armed robbers while on a passenger jeepney while 46-year-old Hitachi Global Storage Technologies human resources manager Arturo Olazo Jr., of Andromeda Street, Herbosa Extension, in Tondo, lost early Friday morning his bag to a thief right outside his home.

MPD investigators said that the student and two classmates were aboard a passenger jeepney  between 5:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Thursday when two knife-wielding men announced a heist.

He lost  his iPad worth P23,000 and mobile phone worth P4,000 to the suspects.

On the other hand,  Olazo lost his computer bag, containing a laptop computer worth P150,000, computer accessories worth more than P14,000, a P6,000 leather wallet, and a P2,500 fountain pen, which he placed down as he was opening the door to his house before dawn on Friday.

When he turned to retrieve his computer bag, it was already gone. Jeannette I. Andrade and Lucy Swinnen