19 December 2006
LEGAZPI CITY—COMMUNIST rebels peppered a pump boat with bullets in Masbate on Sunday, reportedly killing four policemen on board and wounding two other civilians.
Initial investigation reports reaching Camp Gen. Simeon Ola here said the four policemen were still missing.
The reports identified them as PO3 Jose Blaire Banaag, P01 Juan Compuesto, P01 Andrew Tiu, and P01 Dominador Raymundo, all of the 507th Provincial Police Mobile Group in Masbate.
Senior Supt. Eugenio Alcovindas, Masbate provincial police director, said the police team rode a pump boat to go to Barangay Manlut-od in Placer town.
At around 3.30 p.m., a group of New People’s Army rebels opened fire on the pump boat, hitting the policemen.
Two other civilians on board, one of whom was identified as Nilo de la Peña, were wounded. Another civilian, a certain Isagani Garing, was unharmed.
A joint police and Army team immediately launched pursuit operations against the rebels. Ephraim Aguilar and Bobby Labalan, Inquirer Southern Luzon
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