A soldier of the 402nd Infantry Brigade takes photos of vehicles burned by New People's Army guerrillas who attacked a mining firm in the town of Tubay, Agusan del Norte. (photo by Erwin Mascarinas, InterAksyon.com)
Communist rebels torched attacked a mining firm in Agusan del Norte province early Saturday morning, torching several vehicles and a laboratory, and seizing several weapons, the military said.
The New People’s Army fighters overpowered the guards at Phil Alstron in Purok 4, Barangay Tagmamarkay in Tubay town around 1 a.m., 1st Lieutenant Joe Patrick Martinez, civil-military operations officer of the 402nd Infantry Brigade, said.
Martinez said the rebels torched four dump trucks, a motorcycle and the mining firm’s laboratory, and shot up two bulldozers.
They also seized three shotguns, seven pistols, “a handheld global positioning system, a camera, two laptops and four Motorola handheld radios,” the officer said.
Superintendent Martin Gamba, spokesman of Police Regional Office 13, said the initial investigation by the Regional Public Safety Battalion indicated that up to a hundred guerrillas, believed to belong to NPA Guerrilla Front 21 under the command of a certain “Dodi,” were behind the raid.
One of the mining firm’s personnel, who asked not to be named, said: “It was very dark that we never noticed them (rebels) coming. They overpowered our guards and even tied up some of them. We were all so afraid but we were relieved that they never harmed anyone. They just opened fired on the machinery and burned the dump trucks and managed to take several of the firearms.”
Residents near the mining firm claimed they were fast asleep and did not hear the gunfire.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/84164/reds-burn-vehicles-and-lab-seize-weapons-in-attack-on-mining-firm
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