Government security forces are now pursuing lawless elements
who gutted several units of heavy engineering equipment at a construction site
in Compostela Valley
Supt. Antonio Rivera, Southern Mindanao Regional Police
spokesperson, said the incident took place at 11 p.m. at the vicinity of Purok
7, Maparat, Compostela town of the above-mentioned province.
He added that eight suspects, aboard four TMX motorcycles, appeared
out of nowhere and gutted the engineering equipment owned by Verlin
Construction Inc.
The gutted equipment consisted of one backhoe, one bulldozer
and two dump trucks.
The suspects immediately made their escape.
Investigations are now ongoing to determine the identity and
motive of the attackers.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=803003
Operations of this type are typically associated with the Maoist New People's Army, the military wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines and usually involve the failure of the targeted company to pay "revolutionary taxes," a euphemism for extortion payments, to the communist rebels.
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