Ongoing negotiation and rescue efforts are now being now conducted by a crisis management committee of Loreto town in Agusan del Sur for the release of seven village officials who were reportedly abducted by about 40 heavily-armed group believed to be New People's Army rebels.
The same group was also said to have harassed an Army community organizing for peace and development(COPD) team in the area.
Reports from Agusan del Sur Police Provincial Office said a team from the Army's community organizing for peace and development (COPD) team of the Charlie Company, 26th Infantry Battalion, 4ID PA, led by Corporal Edmar B. Jumawan with 12 other army enlisted personnel were conducting immersion activity early Thursday in Barangay Sabud, Loreto in Agusan del Sur when harassed by the armed group -- believed to be members of the Guerilla Front 34 of the Southern Mindanao regional Committee (SMRC).
The army troopers engaged the attackers in a firefight which resulted to the wounding of PFC Joe-Gil Cabillo. Barangay Sabud is the remotest part of the town which is about 60 kilometers from the Loreto Municipal Police station.
At 7:30 a.m. the same day, the fleeing armed group proceeded to the village center and forcibly took baranay captain Lito L. Andalique, village councilors Balaba Andalique, Marvin S. Bantuasan, Crisanto M. Piodos, CVO Pepe Subla and Maria Gina V. Bantuasan.
The armed group brought said village officials with them as they fled the area heading to an unknown direction.
The Agusan del Sur Provincial Public Safety Company as well as the municipal police stations near the area were instructed to conduct checkpoints for the possible interception of the fleeing rebels and rescue of the victims.
The Loreto police has coordinated with concerned units of the Philippine Army operating in the area for intelligence monitoring and possible identification of the suspects.
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