By FROILAN GALLARDO
Special Correspondent
SUSPECTED communist rebels seized two police officers, and a civilian whom they later killed after they set up a checkpoint along the Tikalaan-Dominorog road in Talakag town in Bukidnon yesterday morning.
Capt. Joe Patrick Martinez, spokesperson of the 4th Infantry Division said the rebels also burned several equipment owned by Mindanao Rock Corp., a firm that is constructing a portion of the Tikalaan-Dominorog road in Bukidnon.
The incident is the first major rebel offensive action since Feb. 1 after the New People’s Army terminated its unilateral ceasefire. On that same day, NPA rebels killed three Army soldiers whom they caught at a checkpoint in Malaybalay city.
Martinez identified one of the abducted policeman as a PO2 Natividad of the Kalilangan town police station. The name of the other officer is still being verified as of press time.
He said rebels abducted and subsequently killed a villager identified as 48-year old Lito Siagan Atoy of Barangay Tikalaan in Talakag town. Atoy was described as a local toughie.
Martinez said after the rebels abducted Atoy and the policemen, they burned a backhoe, a dump truck, a mixer and a power generating set owned by Mindanao Rock Corp..
He said the rebels also stole seven motorcycles that they used to flee towards the direction of Lanao del Sur.
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