The Philippine said launched an operation to hunt down
gunmen who shot dead an army scout ranger and seriously injured another officer
in the restive region of Mindanao .
Capt. Alberto Caber, a spokesman for the Eastern Mindanao
Command, has confirmed the twin attacks, but he did not say who were behind
them. He said motorcycle gunmen gunned down a member of the 12th Scout Ranger
Company in the village of San Antonio in Compostela Valley
The soldier was returning home after bringing his son to
school when two gunmen in separate motorcycles shot him, Caber said. “He was
killed instantly. The soldier was unarmed and in civilian clothes,” he
told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.
He did not identify the victim, but Caber said two gunmen
riding tandem on a motorcycle also attacked Colonel Edwin Respecio in Cagayan
de Oro City.
He said Respecio, deputy commander of the army’s 10th
Regional Community Defense Group, was travelling in a car when the gunmen shot
him several times.
“The perpetrators who were riding in tandem immediately
escaped after the incident,” he said, adding, the officer survived the
shooting, but is seriously injured.
“The victim suffered gunshot wound in his left face. Colonel
Respecio is now in stable condition,” Caber said.
No individual or group claimed responsibility for the two
daring attacks, but the region is a known stronghold of the communist rebel
group New People’s Army, blamed by the military and police for the spate of
ambuscades of soldiers and policemen in Mindanao .
The NPA has been fighting for the establishment of a Maoist
state in the country.
http://mindanaoexaminer.com/army-hunts-down-ambushers-in-southern-philippines/
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