The
combined police and military forces have captured one of the six New People’s
Army (NPA) rebels responsible in the ambush slay attempt of a policeman in this
province, a top police official announced Friday.
Captured
was Efren Binigay, 25, a resident of Sitio Gatian, Barangay Timolan in Tigbao,
Zamboanga Del Sur, according to provincial police director, Senior Supt.
Sofronio Ecaldre.
Ecaldre
said that Binigay was captured Thursday by the combined police and Army’s 53rd
Infantry Battalion forces in a pursuit operation in the hinterlands of Tigbao
town.
The
pursuit operations was launched after six NPA rebels ambushed Senior Police
Officer 4 (SPO4) Eleazar C. Carcallas on Wednesday in Barangay Tigbao, Tigabao
town.
Although
wounded, Carcallas was able to put up a fight until reinforcement arrived,
forcing the rebels to fled.
Carcallas
was on the way home from duty at the time he was ambushed.
Ecaldre
said that Binigay is now detained at the provincial headquarters while
appropriate charges are set to be filed against him.
The
pursuing forces have seized high-powered firearms when they captured Binigay,
Ecaldre said.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=644434
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