NPA rebels attack police detachment in Misamis Oriental

From the Philippine News Agency (Feb 22): NPA rebels attack police detachment in Misamis Oriental

Members of the outlawed New People's Army (NPA) engaged law enforcers in a 20-minute firefight in a police detachment in Lagonglong, Misamis Oriental Friday dawn.

Chief Supt. Catalino Rodriguez, director of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Northern Mindanao, said that some 20 fully armed NPA rebels attacked the police detachment in Barangay Dampil, Lagonglong past 3:00 a.m. Friday.

He said the police officers assigned at the detachment returned fire prompting the rebels to withdraw to the southwestern part of neighboring Salay town where the rebels established a blocking force.

Rodriguez said the police, in coordination with the military, were now pursuing the NPAs who harassed the PNP detachment.

The police, all belonging to the PNP's regional police service battalion, did not suffer casualty since all of them were on heightened alert, Rodriguez said.

He said all police units and stations in Northern Mindanao had been ordered to be on alert following the attack of the major pineapple companies in Bukidnon Tuesday evening.

About 150 NPA rebels staged a simultaneous attack on Del Monte Philippines, Inc. (DMPI) major camp in Camp Phillips, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon and the company's satellite camp in Villa Vista in Sumilao, also in Bukidnon Tuesday evening. A security guard of Kadre Security Agency, who was on duty at the administration building of DMPI in Camp Phillips, was killed while three other civilians were wounded in the attack.

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