Twenty armed men held hostage 23 employees of a mining firm
and kept them along with some heavy equipment of the mining firm in a southern
province of the region Monday morning, police reports said.
Information released on Monday, by the police regional headquarters
here prepared by PO3 Darlin C. Migullas, PIO Duty PNCO and duly noted by PSupt.
Martin M. Gamba, chief information officer, mentioned that the armed men led by
a certain Ruperto Ponson alias “Datu Bakentoy” occupied a portion of the
Carrascal Nickel Mining Corporation mining site, specifically at Area 3, Quarry
5 located at Brgy. Babuyan, Carrascal town in Surigao del Sur at 8:15 Monday
morning.
The armed group accordingly held hostage some 23 employees
along with some heavy equipment of the said mining firm.
Immmediately, the Surigao del Sur police formed a Special
Operations Team (SOT) composed of personnel from Surigao del Sur PPO, a platoon
from Surigao del Sur Provincial Public Safety Company, a section from the 132nd
Regional Public Safety Battalion and personnel from Lanuza, Carmen , Madrid
The joint police team is headed by PCInsp. Edwin Noguera,
the Deputy Provincial Director for operations, who established a tactical
command post at Carrascal Municipal Police Station. The police had already
coordinated with the local crisis management committee, according to the police
report.
Around 10:00 a.m. the hostage-takers freed all 23 hostages,
without ransom, but the armed men are still at the occupied portion of the
mining site and are still keeping the 30 units of back hoe, dump trucks (number
of units still undetermined) and 4 units of drilling machines.
The local crisis management committee (CMC) of the town
presided by Carrascal Mayor Vicente T. Pimentel had already convened to assess
the situation.
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