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The New People s Army rebels (File photo)
+ December 18, 2020 PHILIPPINE National Police (PNP) Chief Debold Sinas reminded police commanders on Friday, December 18, to beef up alertness and vigilance against possible attack of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)-New People’s Army (NPA) ahead of its 52nd founding anniversary on December 26, 2020.
“The CPP-NPA-NDF (National Democratic Front) is known to launch high-profile hostilities to drumbeat commemoration of significant dates in the underground movement over the past five decades,” Sinas said.
“The recent rash of hostile actions initiated by the CPP-NPA-NDF are all part of that long vicious cycle and 50-year tradition of violence of the local communist movement,” he added.
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Published December 11, 2020, 8:41 AM
TACLOBAN CITY – Samar Governor Reynolds Michael Tan condemned an ambush, believed to be perpetrated by the New People’s Army (NPA), on a patrol vehicle that claimed the life of a police officer in Marabut, Samar Thursday, December 10.
“One person’s life is not reparable. We should all condemn killings, including political killings…Those are acts of cowardice,” he said.
Three police officers of the Marabut Police and a detainee were onboard a patrol vehicle, and were on their way back from a court hearing in the nearby town of Basey when a roadside bomb was detonated along the highway in Barangay Logero.
Cop, inmate die in Samar NPA ambush Miriam Desacada © STAR/File Cop, inmate die in Samar NPA ambush
MANILA, Philippines A police officer and an inmate were killed in an ambush believed staged by New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Barangay Logero, Marabut, Samar on Thursday.
Cpl. Earl Hembra was shot in the head and died at the scene.
The inmate, Nestor Lumagpas Jr., suffered multiple gunshot wounds. He died while being treated in a hospital in Tacloban City.
Hembra and two other police officers were escorting Lumagpas to a court hearing in Basey town when they were waylaid in Barangay Logero at around 12:56 p.m.