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Rebels torch truck of bananas

Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Representative Joel Virador during the wake of peasant leader Celso Pojas at Iglesia Filipina Independiente. Pojas was gunned down by unidentified armed men. (Sun.Star Davao/Rene B. Lumawag)

ATROCITIES committed by suspected members of the New People's Army (NPA) continue in the province of Compostela Valley after they burned a truckload of bananas on Tuesday.

Reports reaching Sun.Star Davao showed that the rebels blocked the Dole Philippines Co. truck on a road near New Bataan late Tuesday and ordered the driver out of the vehicle.

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