{"id":971822,"date":"2018-02-28T05:25:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T21:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/?p=971822"},"modified":"2018-02-28T00:34:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T16:34:51","slug":"9-wounded-in-npa-attack-in-quezon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/971822\/9-wounded-in-npa-attack-in-quezon","title":{"rendered":"9 wounded in NPA attack in Quezon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/files\/2018\/02\/map-Gen-Luna.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-971823\" src=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/files\/2018\/02\/map-Gen-Luna-620x401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/files\/2018\/02\/map-Gen-Luna-620x401.jpg 620w, https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/files\/2018\/02\/map-Gen-Luna-129x83.jpg 129w, https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/files\/2018\/02\/map-Gen-Luna-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/files\/2018\/02\/map-Gen-Luna-342x221.jpg 342w, https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/files\/2018\/02\/map-Gen-Luna.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a>LUCENA CITY \u2014 Four government soldiers and five civilians were wounded in an ambush staged by suspected communist rebels in General Luna town in Quezon province on Tuesday, military and police reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Elias Escarcha, commander of the Army\u2019s 201st Infantry Brigade, said a group of New People\u2019s Army (NPA) rebels fired at a military truck transporting a group of soldiers from the Army\u2019s engineering brigade along the Bondoc Peninsula Highway in Barangay Bacong Ibaba at 9:15 a.m. The attack was followed by a land mine explosion, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe [rebels] targeted the military truck&#8230; without considering the safety of innocent civilians,\u201d he said, referring to the wounded residents aboard a passenger jeepney and a tricycle tailing the truck.<\/p>\n<p>Police said jeepney passengers Hazel Macalalad, 24, and her children Kimberly, 6, and Albert, 2, all residents of neighboring Catanauan town, were hit by shrapnel after the land mine blast.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate interview, Senior Insp. Eliezer Cayco, General Luna police chief, said John Joseph Robredo, 21, and Marita Ramos, 54, who were in the tricycle, were also wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Reports did not identify the wounded soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Escarcha said the rebels also fired at an Army detachment in Barangay 9, Catanauan, about the same time as the attack in General Luna. No one, however, was hurt in this incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was purely harassment and not an attack,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hacienda attack<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A team composed of policemen and soldiers was pursuing the rebels responsible for the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, suspected NPA rebels raided a coconut plantation in San Francisco town and briefly held six people.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Col. Ely Tono, commander of the Army\u2019s 85th Infantry Battalion based in the Bondoc Peninsula district, said the rebels took two members of the Citizen Armed Forces Geographical Unit (Cafgu) and four security guards of Hacienda Tumbaga in Barangay Nasalaan past 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut they were eventually freed. They returned to the ranch a few hours later,\u201d Tono said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The rebels, reports said, took six Armalite rifles from<br \/>\na house in the ranch during the raid.<\/p>\n<p>Tono said at least 50 people, among them women, attacked the plantation. \u201cMost of them were unarmed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NPA warning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hacienda, mostly coconut farmlands, is being managed by caretakers, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The NPA warned big landlords in the province to prepare for attacks should they continue with their \u201cantifarmer policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe raid was a punishment to [the owners of Hacienda Tumbaga] in their continuous refusal to give land to their tenants,\u201d Cleo del Mundo, spokesperson of the NPA Apolonio Mendoza Command, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>She said rebels also raided the same hacienda in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Del Mundo commended the rebels for the successful attacks on government forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese successive military actions by the [NPA\u2019s Apolonio Mendoza Command] have proven the capacity and resolve of the revolutionary movement in Quezon to face and defeat the full-scale war of the US-Duterte regime,\u201d she said in a statement written in Filipino.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. General Danilo Pamonag, commander of the military\u2019s Southern Luzon Command, called the attacks as the handiwork of \u201cterrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir history of atrocities and violations of human rights has proven that they are only pretending to be champions<br \/>\nof the people,\u201d Pamonag said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Bondoc Peninsula, in Quezon\u2019s third congressional district, is known as one of the agrarian hot spots in Southern Tagalog where several landowners control big landholdings in the towns of San Francisco, San Andres, San Narciso, Mulanay and Buenavista.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUCENA CITY \u2014 Four government soldiers and five civilians were wounded in an ambush staged by suspected communist rebels in General Luna town in Quezon province on Tuesday, military and police reports 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