Five gunmen claiming to be members of the New People’s Army (NPA) have torched a passenger bus after the owner refused to pay revolutionary taxes in Zamboanga del Norte, a top official said Friday.
Chief Supt. Emmanuel Luis Licup, Police Regional Office 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula) director, said the incident happened in Barangay Pucay, Salug, Zamboanga del Norte at about 8 p.m. Wednesday.
Licup said investigation showed the SSG Liner passenger bus driven by Deonilo Asman Bucan, 48, was traveling from Salug municipality to the town of Godod in the same province when it was waylaid by five unidentified gunmen.
He said the rebels ordered Bucan and his three crewmen – identified as Leo Lomondaya, 28; Nelson Ambahang, 28; and, Celso Ambahang, 33 -- to come down from the bus, and that they introduced themselves as NPA rebels.
He said Bucan reported that the rebels told him, “You are always passing without paying,” while pouring a gallon of gasoline and torching the bus.
The bus was loaded with fertilizer, feeds, sardines, soft drinks, dried fish, hollow blocks, sacks of rice and corn and seven containers of gasoline at the time of the incident.
Licup said the estimated loss to property was placed at PHP420,000.
He said the NPA rebels fired a shot into the air before fleeing towards Godod.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1058647
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