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Date: 05 April 2013
Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pangasinan/local-news/2013/04/07/cargo-truck-hijacked-276495

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan — Five armed men hijacked last Friday a cargo truck loaded with 173 sacks of rice worth P242,000, police reported.

Danilo Balin, 36, of Barangay Polo, San Carlos City, driver of the truck owned by Khato Moreno, proprietor of KNK Grains Merchandizing, told the police that his vehicle was blocked by the armed men at the boundary of the Urbiztondo-San Carlos provincial road around 9:30 p.m.

Balin, who was alone in the truck, said the suspects were Tagalog-speaking.

He said one of the suspects grabbed the steering wheel from him and subsequently, his eyes and mouth were wrapped with masking tape and his feet and hands were tied.

The gunmen then managed to drive the truck toward Tarlac City and abandoned it in the city’s Barangay Tebag. The suspects took the rice.

Balin was left inside the truck and was only able to ask for help from tricycle drivers passing by around 2 a.m. of April 6.

The tricycle drivers brought him to the Tarlac City police station where he reported the incident.

A manhunt for the suspects is ongoing. (PNA/Sunnex)