By Ephraim Aguilar
Southern Luzon Bureau
First Posted 16:42:00 01/09/2009
INQUIRER.net
LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines—Suspected New People's Army rebels bombed the cell site of a telecommunications firm Thursday evening in Malilipot town, Albay, police reported Friday.
The Albay police said that at around 8 p.m., security guard Alan Bongales noticed a dog barking inside the cell site compound of Globe Telecom located in the village of San Jose.
When he went outside to check, 10 unidentified heavily-armed men pointed guns at him, forced him to open the gate, and dragged him 15 meters away from the cell site.
Ten minutes later, a bomb exploded.
The security guard was unharmed while the perpetrators fled towards Barangay Binitayan of the same town, police said.
The communist rebels have been attacking Globe facilities in remote villages purportedly due to the telecommunication firm’s failure to pay protection money.
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