For allegedly failing to pay revolutionary tax, New People’s
Army (NPA) members on early Monday morning set on fire four heavy equipment of
a company at its construction site in a village in Mandaon town, Masbate , a police officer said Tuesday.
Police Senior Insp. Malu Calubaquib, Philippine National
Police (PNP) Bicol spokesperson, said a group of 50 communist dissidents raided
at about 4 a.m. Monday the equipment compound of the Hi-Tone Construction and
Development Corp. in Barangay (village) Tagpu, Mandaon town.
The construction firm is reportedly owned by Legazpi
City-based businessman Elizaldy Co.
The communist rebels burned two dump trucks, a backhoe and a
truck cement mixer of the construction firm by pouring gasoline and setting
these on fire.
The police report could not yet determine the cost of damage
brought by the incident and could not say if there were employees at the site
when the raid took place, Calubaquib said.
She said the heavy equipment were being used in constructing
a barangay road in the vicinity of barangays Alas and Tagpu in Mandaon town.
Police investigators theorized that the motive for the
attack was the failure of the construction firm to pay extortion money demanded
by the rebels.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=806765
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