Eight bank employees were killed and another one was in critical condition in a bank robbery in Cabuyao, Laguna Friday.

Chief Superintendent Ricardo Padilla, Calabarzon police director, said the initial theory of the investigators was that the robbers were already inside the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation branch at the Science Park, when the employees reported for work Friday morning.

Padilla said the robbers shot the employees to the head, which gave police investigators suspicions that the victims knew the assailants.

“Kilala nila ang mga magnanakaw that’s why there were all killed. They were shot in the head,” Padilla told ANC television.

Police have yet to identify the victims.

The bodies of the seven victims, including the bank manager, were discovered inside the building while the body of a security guard was found outside, Padilla said.

Another employee, who was also shot to the head, was in critical condition.

Padilla suspects that the crime took place before 9 a.m. He said RCBC clients were the ones who discovered the crime.

Police are hunting down two of the bank’s security guards. Padilla said one of the security guards reports in the morning shift while the other in the evening shift.

Padilla has also created a task force to go after the perpetrators.

“I already created [a] task force to deal with this heinous crime. I’m not going to stop unless this case is solved. Hindi na gawa ng tao ito, gawa na ito ng hayop,” he said.

Source: ABS-CBN

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