Government security forces are now tracking down the eight unidentified men who torched the packing station of Dole Stanfilco in South Cotabato Monday night.
Reports reaching the Armed Forces of the Philippines headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City said the incident took place around 6:50 p.m. at Barangay Sebuyon, Surallah town.
It added that eight armed men, without any warning, left the packing plant alight and quickly made their escape.
Workers and nearby residents hurriedly contained the blaze even as elements of the 27th Infantry Battalion and the Surallah police were deployed to pursue the suspects.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack which is now logged as the 10th arson incident in the SOCCSKSARGEN Region.
SOCCSKSARGEN stands for South Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat and Sarangani and General Santos.
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Possibly a punitive operation by the Maoist New People's Army (NPA), the military wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, for the failure of Dole to pay "revolutionary taxes" (protection money) to the insurgents.
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