Burglars steal books, computers from Manila school

MANILA, Philippines - Seventeen scientific books worth P16,000 and two computers were taken by suspected burglars who ransacked the training room of Manila Science High School in Ermita, Manila.

The burglary was discovered Monday afternoon by officials of the school’s science department, according to Ermita police station chief Superintendent Rogelio Rosales. The school had been closed for the summer break.

In a complaint to Rosales, the school’s science department officer-in-charge Ferdinand Sevilla and a co-teacher went to the school’s science training room at the second floor. They noticed the door was open and the room in disarray.

An inventory of the training room’s facilities showed the missing items were books on physics, organic chemistry, and biology as well as two computers with flatscreen monitors.

Scene of the Crime operatives lifted latent prints at the scene of the heist.   – Nestor Etolle