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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