Monday, December 17, 2012

NPA rebels torch two transit mixers in Nueva Ecija

From the Philippine News Agency (Dec 17): NPA rebels torch two transit mixers in Nueva Ecija

CARRANGLAN, Nueva Ecija - Suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA) burned two transit mixer trucks of the Northern Builders in Barangay Putlan along the Cagayan Valley road in this town on Saturday evening. In what police believed was an act of extortion, the heavily armed group of three men and an amazon, appeared at the construction camp of the Northern Builders Co. at Sitio Maligaya, Barangay Putlan, this town, at about 7:00 p.m. Saturday.

After verifying from Willy Layug, timekeeper, about a supposed demand letter given by the group to Engineer Riza Organista, a week ago, and receiving a “negative response,” the amazon reportedly uttered that the Northern Builders is not fulfilling what they agreed upon. The Northern Builders is the private construction company undertaking road widening project of the government. At that juncture, the rebel group reportedly poured gasoline on the two transit mixers and then set them on fire. The group lingered for about 10 minutes then casually walked away.

The Northern Builders Co. construction crew alerted the army’s Company “B” of the 3rd Infantry Battalion stationed nearby, under 1st Lt. Glen Mar Fernandez, who called up the town police at about 8:30 p.m. to report the matter. Chief of police Joseph R. Sta. Cruz and several of his men proceeded to the site but the armed group was nowhere to be found. It can be recalled that last month in Barangay Pesa, Bongabon town, four heavy construction equipment were burned by four alleged NPA members demanding payment of “revolutionary tax.”

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=480531

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