An NPA platoon raided the local headquarters of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Don Victoriano Chiongbian, Misamis Occidental while a bigger group of Red fighters attacked the PNP station in Josefina, Zamboanga del Sur some eight kilometers away.
At exactly 5:23 a.m., the NPA swiftly swooped down on the Don Victoriano station manned by 14 policemen, including ten who belonged to the elite SWAT unit. The Red fighters played a ruse by wearing Philippine Army uniforms. In a span of ten minutes, thousands of rounds of ammunition were seized as well as 26 firearms of various caliber. The arms seizure consisted of an M60 machine gun, an M203 grenade launcher, 12 M16 rifles and 12 short arms.
Meanwhile, at around 6 a.m. of the same day, a bigger NPA troop used the same tactic against six policemen who were positioned at the PNP headquarters in Josefina. The policemen noticed that the men who arrived were not real Philippine Army soldiers and barricaded themselves within the station.
For close to an hour, the NPA tried to convince them to surrender. But the policemen stubbornly refused. Nonetheless, the NPA command decided to call off the offensive because the growing number of civilians that had begun to mill around could be caught in the crossfire.
Afterwards, a platoon under the 55th IB coming from the neighboring town of
These tactical offensives were launched in a region where the enemy had long considered the revolutionary movement as a crushed and spent force.
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