Troops seize NPA weapons in Mt. Province hideout
SECURITY forces acting on intelligence tips on Thursday seized weapons and explosives being stocked by the New People’s Army in their encampment in Besao, Mountain Province, Cordillera Police Regional Office director Brig. Gen. Ronald Lee said.
According to Lee, members of the Besao Municipal Police Station and the Army’s 69th Infantry Battalion launched an operation in Bgy. Gueday, Besao municipality following an information that local NPA rebels were hiding their armaments in the area.
In a report to Philippine National Police chief Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, the Cordillera police director said that soldiers and policemen scouring the area recovered one M-16 automatic rifle with defaced serial numbers, a 2.3-kilogram command-detonated improvised explosive device, four sets of command-detonated explosives each weighing a kilo, a 100 meter-long electrical wire, two Motorola handheld radios, one Icom radio with charger, a mobile phone and an electronic digital tester.
The recovered NPA weapons and other armaments were placed under the custody of the Army’s 69th IB.
