The reports come a day after slain 5th District Board Member Renato Malabor was buried in his hometown in Isabela, Negros Occidental
Rumors of an impending attack by the communist New People's Army in Isabela town prompted parents to pull out their children from at least 4 public schools on on Monday, July 13.
The police and the army are on full alert while validating
the reports.
Isabela Mayor Enrique Montilla III said "imaginations
have run wild," but ordered the authorities to step up security measures
in the area.
These reports came a day after 5th District Board Member
Renato Malabor was buried in his hometown. Malabor and his bodyguard, Leody
Jomilla, were gunned
down in Isabela town on June 28. The board member's family are crying for
justice as they called on the witnesses to come out and help with the
investigation.
Senior Inspector Ramil Sarona, town police chief, said most
of the classes in 3 public elementary schools and one public high school were
cancelled.
Colonel Franciso Delfin, commanding officer of the 303rd
Infantry Brigade of the Philippine Army, said, "We're trying to control
the situation so the people will not panic. We have deployed additional troops
to assure the residents there."
He added that the army have contained the area.
Pressed if he could be the target of the alleged NPA attack,
Mayor Montilla said: "There's a million in one possibility. I've said my
piece – less talk, the better. I've been in this exercise so many times."
Earlier, Negros Occidental Governor Alfredo
Marañon Jr. offered a P2 million bounty to anyone who can give information that
can lead to the arrest of the unidentified suspect.
Marañon believes that the killing of Malabor
was "politically motivated" since he had expressed plans of running
as Isabela mayor in 2016.
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