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Friday, February 24, 2006
3 killed in separate attacks in southern RP
By Al Jacinto
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Three people were killed in separate clashes in the southern Philippines, where bandits and insurgents are actively operating, security officials said.
Officials said about a dozen bandits attacked Tuesday an army post in the village of Talaptap in Gutalac town in Zamboanga del Norte, sparking a firefight that left two gunmen dead. There were no reports of military casualties, said Major Gamal Hayudini, a spokesman for the Southern Command.
He said: "Troops recovered the bodies of the slain attackers and a shotgun and an M16 automatic rifle."
The motive of the attack was still unknown. But latest military reports said bandits are active in the area and were behind the series of attacks on civilians and patrolling troops in the province where a Canadian mining and a Filipino logging firms are operating.
Suspected communist insurgents also shot dead a government soldier in an attack in San Isidro village in Compostela's Monkayo town late Monday. Hayudini said the soldier was on his way to a store when two gunmen, believed to be members of the New People's Army, attacked him.
"The soldier was killed instantly and the two men fled after the attack," he said.
Last week, five people were kidnapped and executed by unidentified gunmen in Davao del Norte province. The victims, two women and three men, were hog-tied and their mouths taped when their bodies were discovered by villagers along a highway in Carmen town.
(February 24, 2006 issue)
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