Lapanday Foods Corporation (LFC) said Sunday that "hundreds of employees and business partners" will be displaced by the attacks of the New People's Army (NPA) on its facilities in Barangay Mandug here and in nearby Davao del Norte.
Communist guerrillas stormed and burned the box plant of the company early Saturday morning. Another attack was also staged by the rebels at the Macondray Plastic Plant in Barangay Tagpore, Panabo City on the same day.
“It is they (workers and small business partners) who are now jobless and shall bear the brunt of the consequences of this vicious act, the company said,” LFC said.
The company did not specify how many of its workers and business partners will be displaced due to the attacks.
Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio condemned the incident, saying that the NPA cannot be trusted despite the government extending its hands for peace talks.
LFC, however, expressed relief that none of their employees were hurt during the attack, but complained that some of their properties as well as workers' personal belongings were missing.
LFC said it will cooperate with the Philippine National Police (PNP) for the investigation of the incident and to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to prevent another attack by the group.
Meanwhile, the Army's 10th Infantry (Agila) Division reported the recovery of two dead NPA rebels, an M-16 rifle, and assorted personal belongings.
Captain Rhyan Batchar, chief information officer of 10th ID, said that pursuit operations were immediately launched by the Army after the incident, resulting to a 30-minute gunfight. A Simba vehicle of Task Force Davao was hit by an improvised explosive device but nobody from the troops was injured.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php/articles/983879
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