THE Philippine National Police denounced the latest atrocities mounted by communist terrorists on humanitarian and disaster response missions in Visayas and Mindanao that killed three persons and wounded several others.
PNP Chief, Police General Dionardo Carlos, echoed the condemnation by DILG officials of the twin attacks staged by the CPP-NPA in Samar and Surigao del Sur provinces on government personnel and civilians engaged in preemptive evacuation operations ahead of the onslaught of Typhoon Odette that threatens the eastern seaboard of the country.
“These are totally deplorable actions by the local communist terrorists that deserve the strongest condemnation of civil society,” PNP Chief, Police General Dionardo B Carlos said.
Carlos vowed to mobilize the full might of the PNP to “arrest the authors and actors of these crimes against humanity”.
In Barangay Esperanza, Carmen, Surigao del Sur, NPA terrorists ambushed a convoy of soldiers, health workers and pnpevacuees moving to safer ground as local authorities ordered preemptive evacuation of residents in perennial geohazard communities. Surigao del Sur Governor Alexander Pimentel reported the death of three civilians in the attack.
In Eastern Visayas on the same day, two PNP Special Action Force troopers and a civilian were wounded in another NPA attack in Barangay del Rosario, Matuguinao, Samar while police and local government authorities were prepositioning relief supplies and provisions to high risk communities along the projected path of Typhoon Odette.
Wounded in the attack were PCpl Abner Balante and PCpl Manuel Carlos, and civilian Jomar Diaz.
