Cop killed, 2 injured in ambush

From the Visayan Daily Star (Aug 10, 2023): Cop killed, 2 injured in ambush (By GILBERT P. BAYORAN)

A policeman died, while two others were injured in an ambush staged by suspected New People’s Army rebels yesterday in Sitio Calanogan, Brgy. Minapasuk, Calatrava, Negros Occidental.

The incident took place as members of the Calatrava Police Station, led by its deputy police chief, were responding to a shooting incident in Sitio Batyagon of the barangay, where two civilians were reportedly killed by communist rebels.

Initial police reports disclosed that an explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED) hit the Calatrava police patrol car, which followed by gunfire from the armed suspects.

Killed was PCpl. Jayme Nuñez, while injured were PCapt. Jesus Alba, deputy police chief of Calatrava, and PCpl. Dennis Nasis, said PLt. Col. Joem Malong, deputy provincial police director for Operations of Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office.

The incident also occurred as the 6th Special Action Battalion of the Special Action Force, Regional Mobile Force Battalion 6, 1st Negros Occidental Police Provincial Mobile Force Company, and 79th Infantry Battalion, were conducting joint operations in the area to serve the arrest warrant of some high ranking leaders who are remnants of the dismantled Northern Negros Front (NNF), Malong added.

The subjects of the arrest warrants to be served by the police and Army soldiers are Charity Amacan, secretary of the Northern Negros Front, and a certain Darryl Dayawan, among other remnants of the NNF.

Nuñez, 34, of Brgy. Paraiso, Sagay City, was supposed to get married December this year to his girlfriend, according to her mother

Malong said that Capt. Alba, who suffered minor injuries on the head, is now in stable condition and being treated at the Sagay District Hospital.

Nasis, on the other hand, was transferred to a hospital in Bacolod City, for treatment to a gunshot wound in the stomach.

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