Bank collector shot dead

KORONADAL CITY — Two motorcycle-riding robbers shot and killed a collector of the Sarangani Rural Bank of General Santos and took away his bag believed to be containing a huge amount of cash and checks in General Santos City, the police said yesterday.

Senior Superintendent Alfredo Toroctocon, General Santos City police chief, said the body of Nathaniel Santos, 32, which bore several bullet wounds in the chest, was found beside his motorcycle in front of a beach resort in Barangay Bawing.

Toroctocon said Salinas was on his way back to the bank from Kiamba town when he was robbed and slain. — Ramil Bajo