Suspected members of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) burned heavy equipment at an ongoing government construction project along the national highway in the boundaries of Manjuyod and Bindoy towns in Negros Oriental early Friday.
The heavy equipment, which included a backhoe, a crane, two dump trucks and bulldozer, were parked for the night at the multimillion-peso project site in the adjacent Barangays of Malaga in Bindoy and Sitio Alawihaw, Barangay Bala-as in Manjuyod, specifically at the winding Himampangon Road, police said.
Initial police investigation showed that at least three suspected NPA rebels arrived at the project site and started pouring gasoline on the heavy equipment owned by the LL Construction, a construction company owned by Lawrence Limkaichong, husband of 1st District Rep. Jocelyn Limkaichong, said Philippine National Police (PNP) Director Sr. Supt. Edward Carranza.
Carranza, who motored to the crime scene immediately after the attack was reported, said none of the workers were injured even as the suspected NPA rebels fired warning shots at them.
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