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BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n FIVE men armed with a gun on Wednesday struck the house of a businessman in Balagtas, Bulacan.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In a report to Police Regional Office 3 director Brig. Gen. Jose Hidalgo Jr., the Bulacan police identified the victim as Esmeraldo Magbitang Jr., a 40-year-old trader residing in Bgy. Borol 2nd, Balagtas, Bulacan.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Magbitang told police that at least five men entered his compound asking for financial assistance.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The suspects then pulled out their guns and declared a holdup.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The robbers went inside the house then took cellphones, bags, gadgets and still undetermined cash before fleeing in a Toyota Avanza with plate no. NBY4429.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n An investigation is ongoing.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BY KEVIN GALANG FIVE men armed with a gun on Wednesday struck the house of a businessman in Balagtas, Bulacan. In a report to Police<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/12ptsph8.png",620,416,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/12ptsph8-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/12ptsph8-300x201.png",300,201,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/12ptsph8.png",620,416,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/12ptsph8.png",620,416,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/12ptsph8.png",620,416,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/12ptsph8.png",620,416,false],"kreeti-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/12ptsph8.png",620,416,false],"kreeti-featured":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/12ptsph8.png",620,416,false],"kreeti-medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/12ptsph8.png",620,416,false],"kreeti-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/12ptsph8-350x350.png",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Provincial<\/a>","tag_info":"Provincial","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8145,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions\/8145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}