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TRUCK WITH 500 SACKS OF SUGAR HIJACKED

Four armed men hijacked before dawn Monday a truck loaded with 500 sacks of sugar on a highway in Silang, Cavite, before they dumped the vehicle’s driver and helper in an alley in Ibaan, Batangas.

Superintendent Danilo B. Buentipo, Silang town police chief, said police ofﬁcers from Ibaan police, turned over the two victims to his station after they were left behind on a street by the hijackers in a van in Barangay Palindan in Ibaan town.

It was the ﬁrst time that a hijacking incident was reported in Silang in years, said Buentipo.

The hijacked 10-wheel truck (UFJ-756) and sacks of sugarwere reportedly owned by businessman Richard Ang of Gulang-Gulang, Lucena City.

Buentipo said he coordinated with the Cavite-Highway Patrol Group (HPG) under Chief Inspector Rommel J. Ochave and the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) after the hijacking was reported to his station at past noon Monday.

The victims – driver Renato R. Presas, 33, of Purok Maulawin, Urban PCA (Philippine Coconut Authority), Sabang, Lucena City, Quezon; and helper Glenn Lester L. Vasquez, 22, of Barangay Cotta, also in Lucena City – claimed that four men armed with short ﬁrearms ﬂagged them down after they got off from a jeepney which overtook their truck along Santa Rosa-Tagaytay Road in Barangay Puting Bato in Silang town at 1a.m. Monday.

The victims said that the hijackers tied them and were forced to ride the jeepney.

They claimed that they transferred to a van in an unknown place before they were dumped in Ibaan.