KORONADAL CITY — Police said communist rebels on Friday torched heavy equipment of a private construction firm in South Cotabato. Earlier, on Oct. 4, NPA rebels also burned a truck, 20 sacks of fertilizers and 18 hectares of lemon at a plantation in Agusan del Sur. ADVERTISEMENTThe NPA statement owned up to the burning of the heavy equipment. Since 2015, more than a dozen heavy equipment of private firms engaged in road construction and concreting in the upland towns of South Cotabato, have been burned by the rebels. In a statement last year, the NPA owned up to the burning of quarry equipment in Koronadal City.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 11, 2018 21:11 UTC