PNP chief, Gen. Oscar Albayalde. (File photo)
The Philippine National Police (PNP) will look into possible lapses of a security agency of a private firm in Balingasag town in Misamis Oriental which was attacked by New People's Army (NPA) rebels, PNP chief, Gen. Oscar Albayalde said on Tuesday.
Albayalde said the guards of AY76 security agency of power firm Minergy Power Corporation were caught flat-footed, offering no resistance when suspected NPA terrorists stormed the power plant.
The attackers disarmed the guards of five AK-47 assault rifles and several rounds of ammunition, and looted the facility of radio transceiver sets, and other equipment of value, on Monday morning.
He said he has tasked Acting Director of the Civil Security Group, Police Brig. Gen. Roberto Fajardo to investigate the incident and look into possible administrative and operational lapses by the private security agency.
Col. Robert Bahian, Misamis Oriental provincial police director, has already ordered his men to pursue the rebels involved in the attack.
Brig. Gen. Edgardo de Leon, 403IB commander, denounced the attack on a civilian facility as another "NPA violation of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL).
"The NPA, as a non-state armed group, deliberately attacked an ‘undefended area’, as it is not a military compound. The people they attacked are civilians who have no direct participation in the armed insurgency conflict because they are plain civilian security guards. The NPA (rebels) did not distinguish civilians from combatants, which is a clear disrespect (for) humanitarian law," de Leon said.
Meanwhile, Albayalde said the terrorists launched another attack on an isolated government post in adjacent Claveria town, apparently as a diversion to the raid in Balingasag.
He said Taysan police in Legazpi City managed to repel the attack by a group of suspected CPP (Communist Party of the Philippines)-NPA terrorists who tried to overrun a police precinct.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1078247
Albayalde said the guards of AY76 security agency of power firm Minergy Power Corporation were caught flat-footed, offering no resistance when suspected NPA terrorists stormed the power plant.
The attackers disarmed the guards of five AK-47 assault rifles and several rounds of ammunition, and looted the facility of radio transceiver sets, and other equipment of value, on Monday morning.
He said he has tasked Acting Director of the Civil Security Group, Police Brig. Gen. Roberto Fajardo to investigate the incident and look into possible administrative and operational lapses by the private security agency.
Col. Robert Bahian, Misamis Oriental provincial police director, has already ordered his men to pursue the rebels involved in the attack.
Brig. Gen. Edgardo de Leon, 403IB commander, denounced the attack on a civilian facility as another "NPA violation of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL).
"The NPA, as a non-state armed group, deliberately attacked an ‘undefended area’, as it is not a military compound. The people they attacked are civilians who have no direct participation in the armed insurgency conflict because they are plain civilian security guards. The NPA (rebels) did not distinguish civilians from combatants, which is a clear disrespect (for) humanitarian law," de Leon said.
Meanwhile, Albayalde said the terrorists launched another attack on an isolated government post in adjacent Claveria town, apparently as a diversion to the raid in Balingasag.
He said Taysan police in Legazpi City managed to repel the attack by a group of suspected CPP (Communist Party of the Philippines)-NPA terrorists who tried to overrun a police precinct.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1078247
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