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Reward up for gang men in Magallanes Interchange rapes

/ 03:50 PM November 10, 2014

MANILA, Philippines – The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has offered a P200,000 reward to anyone who could give information leading to the arrest of suspects in the recent rape and abduction incidents along the Magallanes Interchange in Makati City.

‎MMDA chairman Francis Tolentino announced this on Monday ‎as he vowed to ask the Philippine National Police to increase patrol in the area.

He said more Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) units would be installed at the interchange.

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“We have to take these incidents seriously and act quickly for the arrest of the [perpetrators],” Tolentino said.

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In September, two female students, 21 and 14, were abducted and sexually molested by at least four men on board a heavily-tinted van in separate incidents.

The 21-year-old victim was walking along Edsa-Magallanes when a van stopped in front of her. The men seized her, pushed her inside the vehicle and then raped her.

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The victim said she found herself the next day at a grassy area in Malolos, Bulacan.

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The 14-year-old girl, meanwhile, was abducted by purportedly the same men along Kalayaan Avenue, also in Makati City.

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As the van pulled over at a gasoline station, the girl managed to flee from the men.

In the same month last year, a 19-year-old transgender woman revealed that she went through the same ordeal.

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The victim, a fashion design student, said she was taken by “Middle Eastern-looking men” ‎on a van at the Magallanes Interchange.

After the men molested and beat her, she was kicked and pushed out of the vehicle on a grassy road in Laguna.

Tolentino said additional CCTV cameras‎ would be installed within the vicinity to “augment the current monitoring system.”

The National Capital Region Police Office will also deploy additional forces as crime deterrents.

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