Friday, July 11, 2014

Rebels cart away firearms in Capiz raid

From the Philippine News Agency (Jul 11): Rebels cart away firearms in Capiz raid

A group of armed men believed to be members of the New People’s Army (NPA) raided the compound of the village chieftain in Barangay Gibato, Dumarao, Capiz, carting away at least five firearms before they escape.

Belated police report reaching here on Thursday afternoon said that on Wednesday, a group of at least 60 armed NPA rebels forced their way inside the compound of barangay captain Sixto Castilla and other neighboring houses in the said barangay which hostile intruders searched for firearms.

SPO3 Antonio Ponce of the Dumarao Municipal Police Station confirmed that the barangay captain lost three firearms to the armed raiders including two .9mm pistols and one 12-gauge shotgun owned by his brother Jiger Castilla.

Apart from Castilla, the alleged rebels also searched the neighboring houses where they took away a 12-gauge shotgun and .45 caliber pistol owned by village watchmen Hope Margarejo and Jonel Daquilana.

Ponce said the village chieftain had just arrived from a session when the two armed rebels accosted him and engaged him in brief conversation as other armed men scoured the house for firearms.

The Dumarao PNP learned that prior to the incident, Castilla who is concurrently the president of the Association of Barangay Captains of Dumarao, received extortion letters from the rebel group.

Meanwhile, high-powered explosives placed inside a fatigue pouch were recovered Tuesday afternoon in a far-flung village in Dumalag, Capiz.

Four M203 grenade launchers were found by a certain Nelson in Sitio Bajatingon, Barangay San Martin, Dumalag town and he turned it over to SPO4 Pedro Celino of the CIDG Capiz.

Celino believed the explosives were left behind by fleeing rebels who figured in a recent firefight with soldiers of the 61st Infantry Battalion in Barangay Lahug, Tapaz, Capiz where a rebel was killed and six others were injured.

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=661872

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