Bicol NPAs hit other police, Army camps in simultaneous attack

From the Bicol Today (Jul 21): Bicol NPAs hit other police, Army camps in simultaneous attack



Red fighters on formation watch a cultural presentation during CPP 46th founding anniversary. BICOLTODAY.COM PHOTO

The New People’s Army (NPA) mounted simultaneous attacks Monday evening on various Army and police detachments, intial reports reached online news, BicolToday.com Tuesday morning.

An officer of the Regional Police Public Safety Battalion based in San Ignacio, Gubat, Sorsogon was wounded in one of the attacks. Police Inspector Francis Camu was injured and was rushed to the nearest hospital for medical treatment.

Details about the NPA attack where Camu was wounded are still not available.

Meanwhile, attacks by the NPA on Army and Cafgu camps in Camarines Norte had killed 9 and wounded 1 government militia, as reported by NDF Bicol. (See related story)

One rebel was also killed in the Camarines Norte attack, said Maria Roja Banua, spokesperson of the underground NDF-Bikol.

In Albay province. Army camps in Anislag and Mayon, Daraga, were also attacked by the rebels. Three (3) civilians were reported injured, said a police report about the Albay incidents.

Police identified the injured as Raquel Biato, James Allen Dominguez and Eugene Asayto, all civilians and residents of Anislag, Daraga, Albay.

Reports also reaching BicolToday.com, Tuesday morning, said NPA rebels also simultaneously attacked army and police camps in Sorsogon.

Around 7:25pm Monday evening, the army camp in Canjela, Castilla, Sorsogon, was attacked by rebels. Camps of Police Public Safety Battalion in San Ignacio, Gubat, and Casay,

Casiguran in Sorsogon were also harassed.

Rebels also harassed an army camp in San Isidro, Bulan, Sorsogon.

An Army official said no one was hurt in the incidents.

A statement sent to media by 31st Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Beerjenson Aquino said, “the NPA indiscriminately fired their rifles, more or less, 200 to 300 meters away from the detachment.”

“This action is to gain propaganda mileage in retaliation in their recent debacles in Bacolod, Irosin,” Aquino said, insisting there were no casualties in their troops.

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