Strike two.

A day after Bacolod City police director Senior Supt. Pedro Merced warned the public against the "bonnet gang", a woman reported to Police Precinct 1 that two unidentified persons wearing bonnets, blindfolded her, held her up and dropped her in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental Tuesday afternoon.

Gen Mar Salazar Guillaran, 30, of Brgy. Tangub, Bacolod City, reported to Police Precinct 1 that she and her four-month-old baby boy boarded a taxicab with tinted window in front of the Bank of the Philippine Island at Araneta Street in Bacolod at about 12:45 p.m. Tuesday, police reports said.

Upon boarding, Guillaran said she was surprised to see the taxi driver wearing a bonnet with an unidentified companion sitting at the back seat of the taxi.

She said the driver's companion immediately blindfolded her and ordered her to keep quiet. She said they were silent but her baby who was hungry kept crying.

Guillaran told Aksyon Radyo Bacolod, that she asked the two what was happening and they declared a hold-up. She said the person at the back seat took her wallet containing P15,000 in cash, her passport and other documents, police reports said.

Her cellphone was not taken because she kept it in the baby carrier, she added.

She said she saw the driver's companion, also wearing a bonnet transfer to the front seat of the cab after they released her in front of the Kabankalan City hall.

She said she immediately flagged down a tricycle and went to the bus terminal where she found a telephone to contact her uncle who lives in Sitio To-oy, Himamaylan City, near Kabankalan.

She and her uncle reported the incident at the Kabankalan PNP, she said.

On Wednesday, Merced had warned the public, especially women, to be careful after a female college student complained that she was abducted and molested by at least six unidentified persons, five of them wearing bonnets, in Brgy. Mandalagan at about 4 p.m. Tuesday, where she was standing in front of a mall in Brgy. Mandalagan.

The complainant who sought police assistance four hours after she was released underwent a medical examination at the City Health Office Wednesday.

The Bacolod Women and Children's Concern Desk, meanwhile, refused to comment on the incident.

Meanwhile, Chief Insp. Jimmy Fortaleza, newly-installed Police Precinct 3 station commander said, he and his men are exerting efforts to arrest the suspects, in coordination with the WCCD and other BCPO police units.*DMG

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