Monday, December 2, 2019

2 Lanao NPA leaders held; arms cache seized

From the Philippine Star (Dec 3, 2019): 2 Lanao NPA leaders held; arms cache seized (By Roel Pareño, John Unson, Emmanuel Tupas)


Handout photo shows part of the arms cache seized after two NPA leaders were arrested in Sultan Naga Dimaporo, Lanao del Norte on Sunday.

COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Two New People’s Army (NPA) leaders were arrested in Sultan Naga Dimaporo town in Lanao del Norte on Sunday.

Cristopher Cañete, intelligence staff head of the NPA’s North-Central Mindanao Regional Committee, and Virjon Virtudazo, political instructor of the Platoon Bingo Moro Company,
did not resist arrest when authorities cordoned their hideout in Barangay Dableston.

Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, Western Mindanao Command chief, said the communist leaders
yielded a caliber .45 pistol, a caliber .38 revolver, an improvised explosive device, two rifle grenades, a blasting cap and a detonating fuse.

Sobejana said Cañete and Virtudazo also led police and military personnel to the location of an arms cache.

Seven M16 rifles, an AR18 rifle, an M203 rifle fitted with a grenade launcher, a .38-caliber revolver, eight 40 millimeter grenade projectiles and thousands of ammunition for a 5.56 caliber rifle were recovered in Barangay Sto. Niño in Kapatagan, also in Lanao del Norte.

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