A man armed with a knife forcibly entered the high school classroom in Naga City in southern Cebu where Mandaue City Division athletes for a regional meet were staying and fled with a teacher’s tablet worth P11,000.
Albundio Benitez, 53, reported the robbery to the police yesterday.
He said the Mandaue Division athletes were staying in the Langtad National High School.
Benitez said he was a kitchen staff for the Mandaue Division athletes competing in the week-long 2016 Central Visayas Regional Athletic Association (CVRAA) meet. He woke up at 3 a.m. to prepare breakfast when he chanced upon the robber inside the room.
The robber poked his knife at the teacher, told him to lie down, tied his legs with shoelaces, and took his tablet.
The robber fled after a surprised athlete screamed when she saw the robber rummaging through the athletes’ bags.
Police said they were assigning more policemen to secure the athletes housed in nine schools in Naga City.
Police said they were still investigating the robbery.