From Malaya Business Insight (Jun 25): Construction equipment burned by NPA in Zambales
NEW People’s Army members burned two engineering equipment used in the construction of a road in Botolan town in Zambales on Saturday, the military said yesterday.
“Extortion” is being eyed as motive in the latest atrocity by the communist rebels, said Lt. Col. Isagani Nato, spokesman of the military’s Northern Luzon Command based in Tarlac City.
“NPA rebels usually burn equipment of construction companies that refuse to pay `revolutionary tax,’” he said.
Nato said an NPA group torched the backhoe and a payloader in Sitio Oraan, Barangay Cabatuan at around 1 p.m.
He could not immediately say who owned the burned equipment but said the company was contracted by government to construct the Capas-Botolan road which will link Zambales and Tarlac, without passing through Subic.
Nato said forces from the Army’s 3rd Mechanized Infantry Battalion have been deployed to pursue the NPA group.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/business-news/news/construction-equipment-burned-npa-zambales
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