About 10 unidentified armed men believed members of the communist New People's Army (NPA) disarmed five private security guards in Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon shortly before noon Saturday, the police said.
Witnesses told responding government troopers that the armed men raided a subdivision in the
The NPA carted away five shotguns owned by the security guards before fleeing to an unknown direction as the military and police established road blocks along the major highway in Manolo Fortich.
Police said that the rebels also put up blocking forces on the interior roads leading to the subdivision in the
The security guards who were caught by surprise did not resist. There was no report of exchanged of gunfires but residents in the village scampered and padlocked their houses as the raid progressed, the police said.
The military and the police have dispatched a contigent of combined government troopers to Manolo Fortich to secure the area for fear that the rebels might staged another attack on various Bukidnon-based multi-national companies in the province.
Last Thursday, the military repulsed an attempt of the NPA rebels to breach the security of a banana plantation and a piggery farm in the outskirts of Libona in Buklidnon.
The military are not taking chances following raid of the security outpost in San Miguel, Manolo Fortich since the NPA rebels raided the Del Monte Philippines Inc. in Camp Philipps, Manolo Fortich in February last year.
Army Major Christian Uy, the spokesperson of the army's 4th Infantry Division, said that the army's 3rd Special Forces have been deployed to secure the companies in Manolo Fortich and Libona, all of Bukidnon following a series of attacks by the communist NPA in the area since last year.
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