Units from the 1st Infantry Division are now hot on the trail of the 30 or more New People's Army (NPA) fighters who raided the police station in Don Victoriano Chiongbian town, Misamis Oriental early Saturday morning.
Capt. Jefferson Somera, 1st Infantry Division spokesperson, said the raid took place around 5 a.m.
"Some of the rebels arrived on a white Toyota Revo while the others were on foot," he added.
Although no one was hurt nor killed in the rebel raid, the NPAs succeeded in stealing 12 firearms, including six Armalite rifles and a light machine gun.
Somera said that responding military units clashed with the NPA's "blocking force" in the neighboring town of
The rebels detonated a landmine during the clash with members of the 55th Infantry Battalion in Barangay Tudela before withdrawing, but no one was injured, Somera said.
The raid in Don Victoriano Chiongbian town came just two days after NPA members carried out an attack in another police station in Kibawe, Bukidnon, on Thursday.
One policeman was killed and three others were injured in the earlier incident, where rebels also seized a total of 13 firearms from the Kibawe police.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=596887
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