Armed men rob EastWest branch in Iloilo City

MANILA, Philippines (ABS-CBN News) - Armed men carted away an undetermined amount of cash from a bank in Iloilo City, Monday night.

Police said that the robbery gang breached the EastWest Bank branch at the corner of Fuentes and Ledesma streets around 6 p.m..

Investigators said that the robbers gained access to the bank by using a woman.

Police said that while the woman was acting as an innocent ATM user asking a security guard how to use the machine, a balaclava-wearing gunman forcibly entered the bank.

Other members of the gang entered the bank and took money from the tellers in just 5 minutes. The robbers shot and wounded a female bank teller while collecting the money.

Police said that the suspects are professional robbers.

Bank authorities have yet to declare how much money was taken by the robbers.

Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog said he has given the police a 48-hour deadline to identify and arrest the bank robbers. -- Report from John Fernandez, ABS-CBN Iloilo