A member of the civilian armed force geographical unit
(CAFGU) was killed allegedly hit by a sniper fire when an armed group harassed
a CAFGU patrol base located at a hinter village of a border municipality
between the provinces of Agusan del Norte and Misamis Oriental on Thursday
evening.
This happened despite the implementation of the election gun
ban and the setting up of checkpoints which started Sunday for the forthcoming
May elections.
Reports from Carmen Municipal Police Station, Carmen town in
Agusan del Norte received by the provincial police office here at 10:50 p.m.,
stated that a CAFGU patrol base located at the said area was harassed some
minutes earlier, by an undetermined number of heavily armed group believed to
members of the New People’s Army operating in the said area. The patrol base
belonged to the 23rd Infantry Battalion, PA headed by a certain Sgt. Molina,
the detachment commander.
Initial investigation disclosed that the firefight lasted
for 10 to 15 minutes, after which the raiders withdrew towards some unknown
direction.
A civilian active auxiliary, identified by the police as CAA
Rodolfo C. Calumpang, was slain, believed to be hit by a sniper fire from the
enemy side. The Carmen police requested the Scene of the Crime Operative to conduct
an autopsy of his cadaver.
In a related development, another encounter was reported at
3:55 p.m. Friday, at Sitio Anahawan, Brgy. Rojales of the same municipality.
Police report said that while a team from the 13th Regional
Public Safety Battalion conducted a hot pursuit operation against the
withdrawing raiders of the patrol base, they engaged another armed group at the
aforementioned place.
Police believed that the group could have been the
withdrawing main force of raiders or a blocking force of the enemy. After 10 to
15 firefight, the armed group withdrew towards Sitio Kabayawa of the same
village.
No casualties were reported however on the second encounter.
Army and police teams are now in hot pursuit operations against the fleeing
armed groups, police report said.
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