Armed men burn heavy equipment at NIA site in Agusan Sur

 An undetermined number of armed men torched heavy equipment owned by Mark Built Corporation last Tuesday evening in Sta. Josefa town in Agusan del Sur, a police report said Wednesday.

A Regional Police Office 13 (Caraga) press statement said the incident occurred at 8 p.m. in Sitio Baclesi in Barangay (village) Angas, where the construction firm was working on an irrigation project of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA).

Damaged in the torching were three backhoes and one bulldozer, the statement said.

Caraga police suspect communist terrorists were behind the attack, saying that sometime in November 2009, the Mark Built Corporation received an extortion letter from the New People’s Army (NPA), demanding P4 million.

But the firm refused to give money.

Elements of Sta. Josefa Municipal Police Station had coordinated with the 26 Infantry Battalion, Charlie Company, Philippine Army assigned in the area as they conducted pursuit operations against the attackers.

In the same statement, the Caraga police also reported that members of an unidentified group ransacked the stockroom of a telecommunication and cable TV provider in the region last Monday afternoon.

It said the suspects took away recorders, remote control, RCA jacks and power supplies of still undetermined cash amount.

The incident occurred at the stockroom of Cignal Communications in Tropical Heights Subdivision, Taglikid, Bayugan 2 in Bayugan City.

Authorities said the suspects gained entry by destroying the kitchen door’s steel padlock of the stockroom owned by certain Eugene Firaza.

Bayugan City Police claimed they are still investigating the incident for possible identification and arrest of the suspects.
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