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Remittance firm collector ‘fails’ to pick up money turned over to Mambaling Police Station

Frenzied motorists scrambled to pick up bundles of cash when bank notes worth $72,000 blew from a security guard's bag in the Philippines. The banknotes came from a cash-in-transit collector's backpack when it broke on the Cebu South Coastal Road flyover in Cebu province on 4 July. Hapless money guard John Mark Barrientos, 26, said he was returning to his employers at a remittance centre following a round of collections that morning. He said he was on his motorcycle - the money-stuffe...

CCPO gives certificate of appreciation to security guard who helped collector at viaduct last July 4

John Mark Barrientos was driving down the freeway in the Phillipines when his backpack broke on July 4 and the bills flew out of his backpack onto the windshields of surprised road users.