• 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 Brgy. Pinowayan, Don Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental.
2Lt. Dan Carlo Samoza, Civil Military Operations officer of the 79th Infantry Battalion, disclosed that 79IB soldiers and troopers of the 1st Negros Occidental Provincial Mobile Force Company acted on information relayed to them by civilians on the presence of armed men in their community while conducting joint law enforcement operations.
This resulted in the capture of two suspected NPA personalities and the recovery of a cache of firearms, composed of a KG 9 automatic pistol, a caliber .45 pistol and three 12-gauge shotguns, Samoza said.
The identities of the captured rebels were withheld by authorities, pending follow up operations.
The capture of two suspected rebels comes in the wake of the liquidation of a farmer, who was shot dead in front of his wife, on April 20 in neighboring town of Calatrava, Negros Occidental.*
