NPA rebels burn private heavy equipment worth millions in Davao City

From the Daily Tribune (Mar 23): NPA rebels burn private heavy equipment worth millions in Davao City

Heavy equipment amounting to millions owned by a private company was burned down by suspected communist New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Davao City Thursday night, belated reports reaching Camp Aguinaldo said yesterday.

Lt. Col. Lyndon Paniza, spokesman of the Army’s 10th Infantry Division (ID), said that the undetermined number of NPA rebels initially set ablaze two backhoes owned by Jammetrix Construction Co. along the Diversion Road near Iglesia ni Cristo in Panacan, Davao City at around 7:45 p.m.

Paniza said that the NPA rebels proceeded to nearby Barangay Buhangin in front of the cockpit area and burned down a payloader also owned by the same company.
The damage was estimated at at least P5 million.

The motive of the attack was not yet established but the NPA rebels usually burn down heavy equipment due to failure of private companies to give in to their revolutionary taxation.

Meanwhile, the NPA-North Central Mindanao Regional Committee yesterday claimed to have killed 16 soldiers and seized 14 firearms as the communist group intensifies its offensives against government forces for its forthcoming March 29 founding anniversary.

Allan Juanito, spokesman of the NPA-NCMR, claimed that the intensified offensives were launched in observance of the upcoming 44th anniversary of the NPA.

“This series of military actions of the NPA in North Central Mindanao is our response to the national call to intensify the people’s war and advance to the strategic stalemate stage,” said Juanito.

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