POLICE FILES

2 WORKERS ROBBED IN BOARDING HOUSE

TWO women were robbed at knife-point inside their boarding house in barangay Pajo, Lapu-Lapu City.

Josephine Olar, 25, and Christine Velez, 26, production workers of a company in Mactan Export Processing Zone (MEPZ), told police that they just arrived in their boarding house Wednesday night when two men whose faces were covered with cloth barged in.

The robbers took Olar’s bag containing a digital camera worth P6,000 and a silver necklace worth P600.00, a wallet, ATM and identification cards.

The wallet only contained P53.00.

Velez’s lost her cellphone worth P5,700.

Police said they believed that the culprits are living within the area since they were familiar with the victims’ routine./CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA

MAN SLEEPING BY THE ROAD SHOT

A 49-YEAR-OLD man was shot while he was sleeping on a makeshift bed at the side of the road in barangay Lahug, Cebu City at dawn yesterday.

Ric Cesiban Carampatan was wounded in the left arm and body. He identified his assailant as a certain Arnold, police said.

Police said a personal grudge was the motive for the attack.

While Carampatan was sleeping on a bed at the side of Gorordo Avenue, a motorcycle with two men on board arrived.

The backrider alighted and fired shots at Carampatan.

The assailants drove off after the attack while Carampatan was brought to the Cebu City Medical Center.

The case will be investigated further./CORRESPONDENT MICHELLE JOY L. PADAYHAG