NPA conducts another landmine attack - report

From InterAksyon (Apr 5): NPA conducts another landmine attack - report

The New People’s Army conducted another landmine attack against a convoy carrying civilians in Davao Del Norte on Friday, April 4, the military said.

The landmine exploded at around 2:30 p.m. at Sitio Opao, Brgy Palma Gil in Talaingod town and targeted a convoy of police personnel and ABS-CBN correspondent Clair Cornelio. The convoy had just just come from a relief operation at Sitio Nasilaban of the same barangay.

No one was hurt in the attack, said a press statement from Lt. Col. Ramon Zagala, AFP Public Affairs Office chief. Police and military elements are scouring the area to hunt down the perpetrators of the landmine explosion.

The AFP has repeatedly condemned the rebel group’s rampant use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as landmines that also puts civilians in danger. Early this year, the rebels also exploded a landmine that wounded five civilian medical personnel in Davao Del Sur, the AFP said.

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