POLICE arrested two MMDA Bantay Estero workers who allegedly held up an FX taxi a few meters away from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Thursday night, just minutes after they stabbed the driver for resisting.

Senior Supt. Francisco Tayer identified the two suspects as Elmer Latt, 31 and Anthony Acosta, 28, both of Tramo street in Pasay City. The third suspect who escaped was identified as a certain Laurence.

Tayer said the three suspects boarded the FX taxi near the Coastal Mall at around 7:50 pm. They pulled out knives and announced the holdup while the van was turning right along NAIA Avenue near the Our Lady of Airways Church in Pildera St., just across Nayong Pilipino.

The passengers gave up their money, pieces of jewelry and cellular phones without a fight but the driver, Carlos Carantiel, 46, resisted and was stabbed in the nape.

Carantiel was taken to a nearby hospital by PO3 Eugene Juane-za who responded to his call for assistance. After leaving Carantiel at the hospital, the mobile crew spotted the three suspects walking along Sucat Road and recovered from them a bloody fan-knife, a jungle knife and the passengers' belongings.