Police secure life of Iloilo mayor vs NPA threats

From the Philippine News Agency (Apr 8): Police secure life of Iloilo mayor vs NPA threats

The Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) has beefed up security for Mayor Matt Palabrica of Badiangan, a remote town straddling the borders of Iloilo and Capiz after receiving death threats allegedly coming from New People's Army (NPA) rebels.

Chief Supt. Josephus Angan, director of PRO-6, said the threat is real, and has jumped to dangerous levels, and therefore can no longer be ignored.

Palabrica said he began to receive threats months prior to the start of the 2013 national elections, but he has shrugged them off, and said his commitment to hispeople remains and that he is not cowed.

Police intelligence is all over the case, and has reported the presence of persons not from the placeloitering in the town premises posing as peddlers.

The Philippine Army has opened an outpost on theoutskirts of the town notorious for being rebel lairs, and Palabrica said a firefight between government troops and the insurgents could be waiting in the wings.

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