DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Aug. 9, 2012) – Suspected communist rebels shot and severely wounded an off-duty government soldier they seized in Davao City in the southern Philippines, officials said Friday.
Officials said the 24-year old soldier, Pfc. John Oliver Ayuman, pretended to be dead after being tortured and shot in the different parts of the body by 3 New People’s Army fighters in the village of Dominga in Calinan district.
Lt. Col. Lyndon Paniza, a spokesman for the 10th Infantry Division, said Ayuman, a member of the Special Forces, was in the house of his girlfriend when the rebels arrived and seized him late Tuesday.
The gunmen tortured Ayuman well into the next day into admitting that he is an army soldier and shot him several times when they cannot get any information and left him for dead
The soldier’s girlfriend said she rushed Ayuman to the hospital. Ayuman, who was shot in the wrist, knee and nape, told military doctors that he played dead when rebels shot him repeatedly.
The rebels, who actively operating in Davao City, are fighting for the establishment of a Maoist state in the country. (Mindanao Examiner)
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