Four women lost their handbags to snatchers in separate incidents during the weekend adding to the continuing incidents of hold-ups and snatchings in the city.

Police identified the victims as Laarni de los Santos, 21, single, a student of the Negros Oriental State University from Sipalay City but who is renting an apartment at Locsin Street, Dumaguete; Gina Mae Tuyco, 25, single, of Capitol site, Cebu City; Vanessa Lilibeth Flores, 24, single of Barangay Bantayan, Dumaguete; and Lourdes Bolabola, 57, single, residing at Jabel apartment at Luke Wright Street.

De los Santos said she was walking along Silliman Avenue extension on her way to her boarding house from school that night when a motorcycle with two riders appeared behind her. The backrider grabbed her hair while his companion grabbed her bag. After getting it, they escaped.

She said the bag contained school materials, P900 in cash, a wristwatch, and her Nokia 3350 cellphone worth P3,500.

An hour later, Tuyco said she was walking by the Don Pedro Lechon Manok place at Colon Street when an unidentified man, also on board a motorcycle, grabbed her bag and escaped. Taken were her Sony cellphone, an ATM card, and her money.

The next day, a man reported to the police that he found an empty bag at Bagacay cemetery. It was later confirmed to be Tuyco's.

Flores, meanwhile, was driving her motorcycle along Fatima Village in Barangay Bantayan at about 4 a.m. Friday with a female friend who was holding her bag, when a motorcycle with two unidentified riders overtook them.

On nearing them, the backrider grabbed her bag and both men escaped. The bag contained an ATM card, P400, and a Sony Ericsson 700i cellphone.

On the other hand, Bolabola was walking along Sta. Catalina Street on her way to church at about 8 a.m. Sunday, when a motorcycle with two riders appeared and the backrider grabbed her bag and then both fled.

Inside the bag were a cellphone, P100, and other items, she said.*RG

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