Military recover P100,000 cash, firearms in raid of NPA hideout in NorCot town

From the Philippine News Agency (Mar 7): Military recover P100,000 cash, firearms in raid of NPA hideout in NorCot town
 
Soldiers belonging to the Army’s 57th Infantry Battalion (IB) raided Thursday a safe house of communist rebels in President Roxas, North Cotabato.

Lt. Col. Nilo Vinluan, 57th IB commander, said the raid occurred in an ensuing encounter with the New People’s Army (NPA) insurgents in Barangay New Cebu around 3:45 p.m. following confirmation of the rebels’ presence in the area.

The rebels, who were caught off guarded, withdrew to a nearby forest area.

Recovered from the rebels’ safe house were various firearms to include a .45-caliber and .22-caliber pistols, subversive documents, a Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU) 2013 payroll and cash amounting to P100, 000.

Vinluan stressed the recovered money forms part of the P2.1-million seized by the rebels in October last year after ambushing a military convoy in Tulunan town.

Eight government troopers were killed in same incident.

Vinluan also disclosed that homemade bomb components such as batteries, trigger devices, mobile phones and remote controls were recovered in the rebels’ hideout.

A laptop and printer believed used by the rebels in their propaganda campaign in North Cotabato were also found.

Vinluan declined to divulge the identity of the owner of the NPA safe house pending ongoing investigation.

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