NPAs torch another cargo truck in North Cotabato
Local News • 00:28 AM Fri Apr 14, 2017
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By:
Edwin O. Fernandez
One of the collateral damage in NPAs attack against firms that ignored extortion. (eagle-eye-risk-advisor.blogspot.com)
KIDAPAWAN CITY – Another cargo truck was set ablaze by suspected New Peoples Army
in a remote village in North Cotabato Tuesday, police said today.
A cargo truck
owned by a banana businessman from Magsaysay, Davao del Sur was to fetch
agricultural products in Tulunan town when about 10 gunmen, who introduced
themselves as communist rebels, flagged down the vehicle at 10 a.m in Barangay
Macmod.
Senior Supt.
Emmanuel Peralta, North Cotabato police director, told reporters the driver
told investigators that he was directed to alight.
As soon as the
driver leaves the truck (YCE-772), the suspects doused gasoline and set it
ablaze.
Peralta said
the suspects belonged to Guerilla Front 72 who had been mulcting the banana
trader from Magsaysay. Apparently, the
trader ignored the demand.
It was the
third arson attack by communist rebels in North Cotabato this year. Last month, communist rebels torched a unit
of Yellow Bus Line in Makilala, North Cotabato.
Last week, the
rebels set on fire a container van loaded with banana’s for export in Sitio
Flortam, Barangay Batasan, also in Makilala town. (Edwin O. Fernandez)