Communist attack

From the Mindanao Times (Jan 15): Communist attack

NPA holds 6 workers, torches 3 spray trucks

THREE trucks owned by agricultural companies were torched by alleged members of the New People’s Army (NPA) Saturday morning in Sitio Tigon, Barangay Tamayong, Calinan District.

Before the burning, the rebels held six workers in Barangay Manuel Guianga, Tugbok District, where they took the trucks.

Sr. Supt. Alexander Tagum, Davao City Police Office (DCPO) director, said around 30 NPAs forcibly took two boom trucks owned by Sumifru Corp. and one sprayer truck owned by TriStar at around 7:30 a.m. Saturday at Sitio Dominguez and Dipag Dos, both in Barangay Manuel Guianga while the vehicles were travelling toward Tamayong.
The Davao-based Sumifru, with office at Pryce Tower along JP Laurel Avenue, is engaged in exporting various fresh fruits, primarily cavendish bananas, pineapple and papaya. TriStar is said to be the banana exporting arm of the JVA Group owned by the Ayala family of Davao.

Lt. Col. Raymund Dante Lachica, commander of 3rd Infantry Battalion, said the members of the NPA’s Guerilla Front 54, Sub Regional Command 3, Southern Mindanao Regional committee (SMRC), led by certain Alias Ka Nasser, staged the attack.

The NPA held the truck drivers and workers for over an hour as they were freed at around 9 a.m.

The workers said their abductors burned the trucks in Sitio Tigon.
The NPA also peppered one of the trucks with different high-powered firearms.

Lachica said the “brazen act of terrorism” by the communist rebels has “once again disrupted the living condition of the locals, leaving them traumatized.”

The army commander likened the attack to the Apr. 29 Lapanday Foods Corporation assault in Buhangin District that caused residents to lose their jobs and livelihood. That attack killed a fish vendor who hit a landmine placed by the rebels along Tigatto Road.

Lachica said they are condemning the evil deeds of the communist group.

He said 3rd IB troopers are currently conducting pursuit operation against the perpetrators.

Personnel of the Calinan Police Precinct also conducted an immediate security deployment and mobile checkpoint operation around the area.

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