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Friday, October 01, 2004
Cops killed in communist ambush (3:30 p.m.)
DAVAO -- Four policemen were killed in an ambush laid by communist guerrillas on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao early Friday, police said.
New People's Army (NPA) guerrillas ambushed the officers in the center of Baganga town, shooting two dead, provincial police chief Superintendent Catalino Cuy said.
The rebels snatched two other policemen who were later found dead on the outskirts of the town a few hours after the early morning ambush, Cuy told reporters.
Meanwhile, a civilian was killed and three soldiers wounded when NPA rebels ambushed a military convoy on the western island of Palawan on Wednesday, military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Lucero said in a statement.
The attack occurred near the town of Taytay as the soldiers were delivering supplies to a military detachment. The lone civilian fatality had hitched a ride with one of the army trucks.
Elsewhere, government troops shot dead a member of a breakaway communist guerrilla faction in a clash near the town of Arayat, north of Manila on Thursday, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Buenaventura Pascual said.
The man was a suspected member of the Revolutionary Alliance of the Children of the Sweat, an NPA offshoot, he added.
The 8,600-strong NPA and its political leadership, the Communist Party of the Philippines have been waging a 35-year Maoist armed campaign.
The party announced in August that it was suspending peace talks with the government because of Manila's alleged failure to persuade Western countries to remove the rebels from their lists of international terrorists. (AFP)
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