By Allison Lopez, Marlon Ramos, Doris Dumlao
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Wearing bonnets and the black uniforms of bomb squad agents, six men got off a van near the Greenbelt 5 basement parking area and hurried up the stairs, telling a guard that they were checking a call about a bomb in the building.
One of the men was later found to be carrying a grenade launcher.
In a brazen noon-hour robbery Sunday at the classiest of the Greenbelt malls in Makati City, gunfire rang out, one of the six intruders fell dead, mall workers dove for cover, and shoppers scampered to a nearby chapel to pray the rosary.
“This was very daring, as if they were challenging us,†Chief Insp. Dennis Macalintal, head of the Makati police investigation unit, told reporters after the attack on the Rolex luxury watch store on the mall’s ground floor.
The other five robbers escaped in a Toyota Corolla and a Honda City after a blazing shoot-out with two police escorts of Taguig Mayor Freddie Tiñga—who were then having lunch with Tiñga at the mall—and with the Greenbelt guards, police said.
Before the shooting erupted, an unidentified employee at a shop near Rolex said she saw the armed men “hammering the show cases [at Rolex] to get the watches.â€
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