Upon going to work this afternoon. I toke my usual route--tricycle to the local FX terminal bound to Cubao. And take jeep from Cubao to Gilmore. I arrived at the terminal at 5pm and saw couple of people gathered on the side of the area. They were looking at the Green Toyota Revo, who obviously hit the side of the terminal. I asked manang, one of the locals there what happened. I asked, "Manang ano yon banggaan?" Then she said, "Hindi, barilan lang". I was like--"Huwatt?! barilan lang? Haller?!". I asked manang full details on what happened. Apparently, it happened this morning at around 9:30AM. The driver of the Revo was the jeepney terminal president. He was shot and killed instantly by six gun men who unfortunately escaped. The uniformed officials were not policemen, but from SOCO. They were investigating the scene at that time. I was deeply saddend when manang told me that the driver was with his apo (grand child), who was also shot and killed. Nadamay. The grand son was only one and half yr old. Imagine that?! That helpless little baby boy was killed with no reason at all. I even saw his baby bottle on the dashboard when one of the SOCO personnel opened the passenger door. Upon seeing the scene, no one would have survived because there were gun holes everywhere. The killer's intention were not money but power, kase baka kaaway daw gumawa nun. Tsk.

Sabi nga nila, iba na panahon ngayon. Life is too short for them to take it away just like that. It's really sad to think that the world today is not that safe anymore.

Then upon arriving in the office, my friend (office mate) told me that there was a brutal killing in the local bank somewhere in Laguna.

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9 killed in Philippine bank robbery, mostly bank employees shot in head

MANILA, Philippines -- At least eight bank employees and a security guard were lined up and shot dead in the head Friday in one of the bloodiest bank robberies in the Philippines, police said. One employee was in critical condition in a hospital.

The victims were found sprawled on the floor of a branch of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. in Cabuyao town in Laguna province, south of Manila, after the bank failed to open as scheduled at 9 a.m. and suspicious customers alerted authorities, Chief Superintendent Ricardo Padilla said.

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