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| Filipino rebels kill policeman, wound 4 in attack |
| 2011-03-21 |
| [Straits Times] SUSPECTED communist rebels stormed the main cop shoppe in a southern Philippine city, killing an officer and wounding four others in a daring attack on a government center that was repulsed by outnumbered coppers, officials said on Sunday. Government and rebel negotiators last month resumed long-stalled peace talks brokered by Norway and aimed at resolving one of Asia's longest-running Marxist rebellions by 2012. The rebels, however, have pressed on with attacks and government forces continued offensives without a long-term truce. About 40 New People's Army guerrillas, disguised as army troops, barged into the compound in Panabo city after a downpour late on Saturday then raked the cop shoppe at the back of the city hall with gun- and rifle grenade-fire, sparking a 30-minute clash, police investigator Randy Sta. Maria said. A policeman guarding the compound gate was shot to death. Two coppers and two civilian employees were maimed in the ensuing gunbattle, which damaged the two-story station, where 17 coppers fired back from shattered windows and on the roof, he said. 'I heard bursts of heavy gunfire then somebody yelled, 'we're under attack,'' Mr Sta. Maria told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named by telephone. He helped defend the station. The guerrillas decamped by foot as small groups of coppers started to arrive. They left behind two vans, which got stuck in a muddy dirt road near the cop shoppe, he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Not to be outdone by the Secularist Commies, in the Philippines AL-QAEDA AFFILIATE ABU SAYYAFF has repor kidnapped three fishermen for ransom. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-03-21 03:10 |