Burglars kill 5, torch home in QC

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Grisly end for 5 QC household members

MANILA, Philippines – Robbers broke into the home of a Chinese-Filipino family in a posh subvidision in Quezon City before noon Tuesday and stabbed six household members, including a three-year-old girl, before setting the house on fire in an apparent attempt to hide the crime.

Only Dr. Geronimo Jiao, 86, survived the attack. He is now undergoing treatment in a hospital for third degree burns.

His wife, Felicitas, 70, who also sustained severe burns, died from multiple stab wounds as she was being treated at the Sta. Teresita General Hospital.

The couple was pulled out by rescuers from the basement of their burning two-story house on Talayan Street, Talayan Village, Sta. Mesa Heights.

Their 3-year-old grandchild, Nina, was killed in the fire, along with the family’s three housemaids. Their bodies were badly burned and hardly recognizable.

The girl, who had been stabbed in the back, was found in the arms of one of the maids who also sustained a stab wound. Lying next to them was the body of another housemaid.

The third housemaid was found inside the bathroom with her left hand nailed to the floor. Her body also bore stab wounds.

SPO2 Jerry Abad of the Quezon City Police District Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (QCPD-CIDU) identified the three housemaids only as Gloria, Marie and Lean. Their attackers had tied up them up and gagged their mouths with packaging tape.

The robbers then ransacked a vault inside the house and escaped on board a beige Toyota L-300 van, Abad said.

A resident in the area, who asked not to be identified for security reasons, said she saw the van parked across the Jiaos’ house at 11:53 a.m. Tuesday.
She added that Nina, the couple’s grandchild, had just been picked up from school and dropped off by her parents in her grandparents’ house.

A fireman said the explosion came from a liquefied petroleum gas tank whose control valve may have been deliberately left open by the robbers.

QCPD-CIDU investigators are conducting operations for clues to identify the robbers.