Suspected New People’s Army attacked a settlement area of RPA-ABB in Barangay Locotan, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental Wednesday. (PHOTO COURTESY OF ROJO TAMAYO / VIA GLAZYL MASCULINO / MANILA BULLETIN)
Brig. Gen. Benedict Arevalo, commander of the Army 303rd Infantry Brigade, identified the slain RPA-ABB members as Jhoenel Marbebe, 26; and Florencio Vergara, 58, both residents of Barangay Locotan, Kabankalan.
Wounded were Jonatan Pragandos, 40, of Barangay Tabugon; Ranel Banista, 20, of Barangay Bantayan; and Andres Montebon, 56, of Barangay Locotan.
Police investigation showed that the victims were sleeping at the Peace and Development Community building when armed men burst in at 1 a.m.
The victims were occupying five rooms in the building, police said.
Another RPA-ABB member who was hogtied in a room was able to escape when the armed men searched the other rooms.
A certain “Regalado Bunda” exchanged fire with the attackers with a .60 caliber machinegun for about 10 minutes until his gun jammed.
Two of the wounded were brought to Bacolod City and the other to the city’s district hospital.
The attackers reportedly took several rifles, a .45 caliber pistol, and the machine gun.
In a press statement released Thursday, Ka Juanito Magbanua, spokesperson for the NPA’s Armando Sumayang Jr. Command, owned the attack.
Magbanua said, “the NPA offensive is a response to the long time demand of the people to punish the RPA-ABB for their bandit activities that sow terror, kill farmers, steal and extort, for being gun-for hire, and for taking part in the reactionary government’s counter-insurgency program aimed at destroying the revolutionary movement.”
https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/05/09/2-killed-in-npa-attack-negros-occidental/
Another RPA-ABB member who was hogtied in a room was able to escape when the armed men searched the other rooms.
A certain “Regalado Bunda” exchanged fire with the attackers with a .60 caliber machinegun for about 10 minutes until his gun jammed.
Two of the wounded were brought to Bacolod City and the other to the city’s district hospital.
The attackers reportedly took several rifles, a .45 caliber pistol, and the machine gun.
In a press statement released Thursday, Ka Juanito Magbanua, spokesperson for the NPA’s Armando Sumayang Jr. Command, owned the attack.
Magbanua said, “the NPA offensive is a response to the long time demand of the people to punish the RPA-ABB for their bandit activities that sow terror, kill farmers, steal and extort, for being gun-for hire, and for taking part in the reactionary government’s counter-insurgency program aimed at destroying the revolutionary movement.”
https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/05/09/2-killed-in-npa-attack-negros-occidental/
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