3 Dagupan hotel workers stabbed dead

DAGUPAN CITY — The cashier and two room boys of a hotel here were stabbed dead while asleep while another was critically wounded before dawn yesterday, police said.

The attack that left Floren Hotel cashier Arcycll Molano, 23, and room boys Michael Belo, 22, and Jojo Calamagan dead and another room boy, Jurios Adres, wounded, occurred while the employees were resting after their Christmas party.

Police suspect that robbery was the motive since P10,000 was missing from the cashier’s collection.

Probers were looking for security guard Victor Dalisay who went missing after telling a tricycle driver whom he, together with a companion, had flagged down to report to the police that there was a robbery at the Floren Hotel. The driver did so at about 4 a.m., and was later surprised to learn that three persons had been killed. — Eva Visperas, Cesar Ramirez