Two heavy equipment owned by a construction firm were blasted by an armed group on Monday morning in Brgy. Guintas, Sigma, Capiz.
In a long distance interview this morning, Senior Inspector Ramir Entereso, chief of police of Sigma Municipal Police Station, said the armed group detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) in blasting the backhoe and a roller that were heavily damaged after it caught fire.
A certain Melvin Dingcong, operator of the roller, said he was asleep in the vicinity of the barangay hall when one of the armed men woke him up about 2:30 early Monday morning and ordered him to park the two heavy equipments side by side.
Minutes later a power blast rocked the area that saw the two heavy equipment on fire.
Dingcong and a village watchman told the responding elements of the Sigma PNP that they overheard the group of around eight armed men claiming to be members of the New People’s Army as they sped away onboard four motorcycles as get-away vehicles in their haste escape.
Guintas is a barangay located along the national highway some two kilometers away from Sigma town proper.
Meanwhile, the damage incurred by contractor Silver Dragon Incorporated which owned the heavy equipment being used in the ongoing road repair project in the locality was estimated at some P10 million worth of property.
The Sigma PNP, on the other hand, is thoroughly investigating the incident in an effort to establish the motive behind the firebug crime reportedly perpetrated by members of the NPA rebels operating in Capiz.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=674396
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