From the Visayan Daily Star (May 15): Mining firm loses P400,000 to ‘rebels’
The Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office and the Philippine Army said they are investigating the hold-up incident at a mining firm in Tayasan Saturday, but said they believe it was not election-related.
NOPPO director, Senior Supt. Noli Romana, and 302nd Infantry Brigade commander, Col. Francisco Patrimonio, said the incident could have been perpetrated by members of the New People’s Army.
Belated reports from the police and the military showed that, at around 10:45 a.m. Saturday, around 20 armed men flagged down two Toyota Hi-Lux pickup trucks of the PDEP Mining in Sitio Bantog, Barangay Lag-it, Tayasan, and declared a hold-up.
The suspects reportedly held hostage an employee of the mining company and fled towards Sitio Trocat of the same barangay, with more than P400,000 in wages of company workers, Patrimonio said.
The status and location of the hostage was not immediately known.
Romana said he has directed the police chief of Tayasan to further investigate the incident.
Patrimonio said the company also reported a hold-up incident last year.
http://www.visayandailystar.com/2013/May/15/negor4.htm
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