Publication Date:
Sun, 2011-03-20 14:19
Police officer Randy Sta. Maria says about 40 New People’s Army guerrillas, disguised as army troops, barged into a government compound in Panabo city in the Davao region late Saturday and raked the police station at the back of the city hall with gunfire and rifle-grenade fire.
Sta. Maria said Sunday that a policeman guarding the compound gate was shot to death and two policemen and two civilian employees were wounded in the ensuing gunbattle.
Government and rebel negotiators last month resumed long-stalled peace talks brokered by Norway and aimed at resolving one of Asia’s longest-running Marxist rebellions by 2012.
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