I don't think the article is telling the whole truth. It was either a payback for something or they didn't cut his two hands. maybe they caused cuts on his two hands. But the article is quite "calm" it doesn't say the victim was seriously injured and taken to that and that hospital, or was bleeding, or anything, just that the victim denounced the attack at the police station and says the value was 35k pesos. If he was really dismembered of his two arms, I think the article would have quite a different tone in it, you could "visualize" the bloodshed and the agony of the victim. this was just a basic crime report so again, I do not think he really had his two hands or arms cut (cut like amputated).