NPA rebels kill 8 policemen, village official
The Manila Times – www.manilatimes.net
Sunday, August 22, 2010
COMMUNIST guerrillas killed eight policemen and a local official in coordinated attacks in Samar on Saturday, the police commander for the region said.
New People’s Army (NPA) gunmen murdered a village official at his home at dawn and then ambushed a police patrol sent to investigate the killing, said Chief Supt. Arnold Revilla, Eastern Visayas regional police director.
The rebels set off a roadside bomb as the patrol approached the village official’s home, then raked it with gunfire, Revilla told reporters by telephone.
He said the dead included the deputy police commander of Catarman City, Senior Insp. Necasio San Antonio.
The attackers then stole the victims’ firearms, he added.
Revilla said police reinforcements were flown by helicopter into the hamlet, near Catarman on Samar Island, amid concern that there were more unexploded bombs on the village road.
The 5,000-member NPA has been waging a Maoist rebellion across much of the Philippines since 1969 that has left thousands of people dead. AFP
5 soldiers killed in attack
By Al Jacinto
The Manila Times – www.manilatimes.net
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
ZAMBOANGA CITY: New People’s Army (NPA) insurgents killed at least five soldiers during a minutes-long clash early on Tuesday, officials said. Another soldier was also wounded in the fighting that broke out in Veruela town’s Fortuna village, after dozens of rebels attacked a military detachment.
The row lasted several minutes, stopping only when the attackers retreated to the hills. There was no word whether any one of them was wounded or killed.
The army’s spokesman Lt. Col. Triumph Dominic Bagaipo of 4th Infantry Division said that there was an ongoing operation “aimed at tracking down the rebels in the province.”
The armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, the NPA has been fighting for the establishment of a Maoist state in the country for decades now.
5 soldiers killed in NPA attack on outpost
By Frinston Lim
Philippine Daily Inquirer – www.inquirer.net
Friday, August 27, 2010
DAVAO CITY, Philippines—Five soldiers were killed in an attack by New People’s Army rebels in a village in Veruela town, Agusan del Sur, on early Tuesday, the military said.
A soldier, Pfc. Cesar Sadjail, was also wounded following the assault by NPA rebels in an Army outpost in La Fortuna village at 1:45 a.m., Lt. Col. Randolph Cabangbang, spokesperson of the military’s Eastern Mindanao Command, said.
Lt. Col. Dominic Triumph Bagaipo, spokesperson of the Army’s 4th Infantry Division, said at least 30 rebels, believed to be from the NPA’s Guerrilla Front 3 Southern Mindanao Regional Committee, swooped down on the newly established command post of the 26th Infantry Battalion’s Charlie Company.
Bagaipo, in a statement to the Inquirer, the rebel attack lasted for at least 15 minutes.
Bus torched in Lanao; 2 cops gunned down
By Mike Frialde and Lino De La Cruz
The Philippine Star – www.philstar.com
Friday, August 27, 2010
MANILA, Philippines - Unidentified armed men stopped a passenger bus in Lanao del Norte early yesterday and killed the bus driver, the conductor and two police marshals.
Reports reaching Camp Crame said the armed men later torched the RTMI bus (body number 1516).
According to reports, the bus was passing through Barangay Balili in Kapatagan town at about 1:20 a.m. when it was stopped by armed men manning a checkpoint. It was at this point when the gunmen shot dead the unidentified bus driver and conductor and the two police marshals identified as PO3 Rosalito Obatay and PO3 Jovito Cabigas.
Senior Superintendent Orlando Benas, police provincial director said the passenger bus was headed for Zamboanga City from Cagayan de Oro City and when it reached Barangay Balili in Kapatagan town, armed rebels stopped the bus and ordered all passengers to come down.
However, the rebels were able to identify two policemen who were among the passengers and shot them, together with the driver and conductor. The police did not release the names of the casualties as of press time.
Based on initial investigations, the alleged rebels were wearing camouflaged uniforms and claimed to be members of the New People’s Army (NPA). They established a checkpoint along the highway and stopped the passenger bus before shooting the victims and torching the bus. However, reports also showed that extortion could have been the motive and the police is still investigating the case further.
Police said the bus attacked Thursday was traveling from Cagayan de Oro to Zamboanga city in Lanao del Norte, where Muslim rebels and criminal gangs operate – when it was flagged down at a road checkpoint by gunmen in police uniforms.
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