• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
Two suspected New People’s Army rebels, who are remnants of the dismantled Northern Negros Front, were captured on Thursday by Army soldiers and police troopers in Don Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental.
2Lt. Dan Carlo Samoza, civil-military operations officer of 79th Infantry Battalion (IB), said that 79IB soldiers and troopers of 1st Negros Occidental Provincial Mobile Force Company acted on information relayed to them by civilians on the presence of armed men while conducting joint law enforcement operations in Barangay Pinowayan.
This resulted in the capture of two suspected NPA personalities and the recovery of a cache of firearms, composed of a KG-9 semiautomatic pistol, a caliber .45 pistol and three 12- gauge shotguns, Samoza said.
The identities of the captured rebels have been withheld by authorities, pending follow-up operations.
The capture of the two suspected rebels came in the wake of the liquidation of a farmer, who was shot dead in front of his wife, on April 20 in the neighboring town of Calatrava. | GB
