An alert farmer prevented what could be bloody Sunday
morning for government forces when he informed the police and military
personnel of his discovery here - an improvised explosive device (IED).
Police bomb experts safely defused an improvised bomb
planted by suspected New Peoples Army in Barangay Poblacion.
Capt. Danny Boy Tapang, 39th Infantry Battalion
spokesperson, said the IED was found by a farmer at 8:45 a.m. some 300 meters
away from a national road in Barangay Poblacion.
He immediately alerted the police and Army in the area.
The farmer who he did not identify told military personnel
that he first saw an electrical wire about 300 meters long. At its end as a
blue pipe and blasting cap.
Responding police and military bomb experts safely defused
the IED.
Tapang blamed the communist New People's Army (NPA)
operating in Columbio as the ones who planted the IED intended for government
forces conducting peace and development programs in the hinterlands of
Columbio.
He also said the NPAs, under Front 72, wanted to send the
message it is still active as it prepares for its foundation day on March 26.
He also lauded the farmer who was alert and concern for the
safety of government forces and even civilians who might be accidentally hit by
the banned land mines.
"He should be lauded, he should be emulated because
security is everybody's business," Tapang said in a radio interview.
Tapang said the 39th IB and other security units in North Cotabato have been on heightened alert as the NPAs
are expected to launch attacks against government forces, multi-national
companies and even local officials to celebrate the foundation of Communist
Party of the Philippines (CPP)-NPA.
Columbio is a town in the borders of Sultan Kudarat and South Cotabato where the NPAs have a sizable force.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=746918
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