6 Japanese engineers survive Cebu ambush
February 24, 2001 | 12:00am
CEBU  Six Japanese engineers and their two Filipino drivers survived an ambush in the outskirts of this city during an apparent robbery attempt last Thursday night, police said.
Three men by the side of a narrow road fired pistols which shattered the windshield of a van carrying Toa Construction engineers Harutashi Usui, Hinorobu Takeuchi and Yashinobu Fukushima, city police chief Ronald Roderos said.
None of the bullets hit a second van carrying their co-workers Tashiniko Amano, Kyota Norizoki and Takayashu Koga, he added.
Glass shards from the windshield caused slight injuries to the driver of the first van, Roderos said.
The Japanese sought help at a nearby police detachment.
The area of the attack, in Barangay Bulacao, Pardo town, used to be a stronghold of communist guerrillas in the 1980s. But police said there has been no rebel activity in the area for some time and Roderos said investigators are looking into a robbery angle.
The Japanese embassy in Manila declined to comment on the attack.
Roderos said the six Japanese were being driven home to their staff house in the Saint Jude Acres Subdivision when the attack happened.
Their company is a contractor for a 200-hectare city government reclamation project funded by the Japanese government.
Local authorities said police were later deployed at the reclamation site to secure the workers and equipment.  Jaime Laude
Three men by the side of a narrow road fired pistols which shattered the windshield of a van carrying Toa Construction engineers Harutashi Usui, Hinorobu Takeuchi and Yashinobu Fukushima, city police chief Ronald Roderos said.
None of the bullets hit a second van carrying their co-workers Tashiniko Amano, Kyota Norizoki and Takayashu Koga, he added.
Glass shards from the windshield caused slight injuries to the driver of the first van, Roderos said.
The Japanese sought help at a nearby police detachment.
The area of the attack, in Barangay Bulacao, Pardo town, used to be a stronghold of communist guerrillas in the 1980s. But police said there has been no rebel activity in the area for some time and Roderos said investigators are looking into a robbery angle.
The Japanese embassy in Manila declined to comment on the attack.
Roderos said the six Japanese were being driven home to their staff house in the Saint Jude Acres Subdivision when the attack happened.
Their company is a contractor for a 200-hectare city government reclamation project funded by the Japanese government.
Local authorities said police were later deployed at the reclamation site to secure the workers and equipment.  Jaime Laude
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