8 cops, one village exec killed in rebel ambush 08/22/2010

8 cops, one village exec killed in rebel ambush

08/22/2010 Communist guerrillas killed eight policemen and a village official in coordinated attacks in Northern Samar province yesterday, the police commander for the region said. New People’s Army (NPA) gunmen murdered a village official at his home at dawn and then ambushed a police patrol sent to investigate the killing, Eastern Visayas regional police director Chief Supt. Arnold Revilla said. The rebels set off a roadside bomb as the patrol approached Councilor Rolando de Guia home in Barangay Imelda in Catarman town around 5:30 a.m. then raked it with gunfire, Revilla told reporters by telephone. Reports said around 8:30 a.m., elements from the local police were able to get near the crime scene, which was a kilometer away from the town proper and could only be reached by negotiating a dirt road. But the responding police team, led by deputy police head Senior Supt. Necasio San Antonio, was attacked by around 40 suspected communist rebels, some 500 meters away from De Guia’s house. “The patrol car was directly hit by the landmines. It was a total wreck and it burned down,” Revilla said..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100822hed3.html

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