NPA stages simultaneous attacks

Sun Star-Davao (Apr 15): NPA stages simultaneous attacks

SUSPECTED New People's Army (NPA) rebels simultaneously attacked and ransacked three areas in Monkayo, Compostela Valley.

Attacked were the mining compound of Monkayo Mayor Manuel Brillantes Jr. and the Philippine Army detachment of the 25th Infantry Battalion.

A security guard at the mining site and a militiaman acting as private security of the mayor were killed in the simultaneous attacks.

Colonel Francis Sibal, 10th Infantry Division's Civil Military Office Battalion commander, said the rebels were under Front Committee 3 led by Ka Lope.

He identified one fatality as Cafgu Active Auxiliary (CAA) Rene Goc-ong.
Sibal said they have yet to identify the other fatality.

He said the rebels separated into three groups, with one attacking the mining compound, the other one harassing the Army detachment, while another posting at a bridge where possible government reinforcement would pass by.

While the rebels failed to capture the camp and cause heavy damage, Sibal said Goc-ong was injured and later died at a hospital from a gunshot wound in the neck.

Lieutenant Vergel Lacambra, of the 10th Division Public Affairs Office, said that about 20 members of the NPA attacked the army patrol base, resulting in a 20-minute encounter.

Around 11 p.m., about 30 rebels also established a road block along the national highway of Davao-Butuan road at Km. 104, Barangay Bankerohan Sur in Montevista, Compostela Valley. The armed group used one forward truck and one Starex van to block the national highway.

Upon receiving the reports, Senior Superintendent Antonio Rivera of the Police Regional Office-Davao said the Montevista police, the Compostela Valley Provincial Police Office and intelligence operatives conducted road security and intensified monitoring along the main supply route in coordination with the Philippine Army for counter measures.

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