2 female supermarket execs seized in Bulacan

CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga — Six car-riding men abducted two female executives, both siblings, a few meters from the supermarket they were working for in Malolos, Bulacan last Monday, police said.

This developed as a female poultry farm owner in Angeles City, Amelita Cezar, 51, has been set free by her abductors, her relatives told authorities yesterday.

Senior Superintendent Edgar Acuña, Bulacan police director, said Bunny Barrera and her sister, Carla, both junior executives of South Supermarket, were snatched at about 5:30 p.m. while they were on their way home aboard a Mazda van.

The kidnappers, armed with M-16 Armalite rifles and caliber .45 pistols, blocked the van, driven by one Danny Balbas, along the MacArthur Highway, a few meters from the supermarket.

Two of the six armed men alighted from their Isuzu Hi-lander with license plate USL 703 and fired their guns twice in the air. Their cohorts then poked their guns at Balbas.

The kidnappers, along with a back-up vehicle, fled with the sisters toward Calumpit town. They took the keys of the Mazda van and left Balbas on the roadside.

Acuña said the kidnappers have not yet contacted the two sisters’ family or their employer.

Meanwhile, agents of the regional intelligence and investigation division and the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) have been tasked to look deeper into the abduction of Cezar, owner of NC Poultry Farm.

Cezar’s family, however, has refused to cooperate with the authorities.

Cezar was snatched last Jan. 31 by ski mask-wearing men at her poultry farm while she was preparing the P400,000 payroll for her workers.