Police insist NPA torched vehicles in Bukidnon

Police insist NPA torched vehicles in Bukidnon

THE Police Regional Office in Northern Mindanao (PRO-10) maintained that the group behind the torching of vehicles in Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon last week was the New People's Army (NPA).

Police Lieutenant Colonel Surki Sereñas, PRO-10 spokesperson, contradicted a statement from the Army's 403rd Brigade that a criminal group was behind the incident.

Sereñas said the suspects could not have been a criminal gang because of their number and their armaments.

"There are certain parameters for us to consider a group as a ‘criminal gang’ and this group cannot be considered one taking into account the number and armaments. They are about 100 of them who were armed with high powered assault rifles like M16 and AK47," he said.

Sereñas said it is more correct to call them an armed group than a criminal gang.

"They cannot simply be called a gang. If we don’t call them NPA, we might instead call them armed group. Criminal gang is too insignificant for a large group like this armed with M16 and AK47 assault rifle and planning an attack on a police station," he said.

Asked if the army might have been misinformed, Sereñas said: "I think so".



Captain Ryan Layug, 403rd Brigade civil-military officer, earlier said they could not confirm that this incident was perpetrated by the NPA.

Colonel Edgardo de Leon, commander of 403rd Infantry Brigade, said they were still investigating the modus operandi of the group.

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