DAVAO CITY – Communist rebels have ambushed a jail truck on Monday and freed two of their arrested companions and abducted two wardens in the southern Filipino province of Surigao del Sur, reports said.
It said three other jail wardens and a prisoner were also wounded in the attack that occurred near the village of Amontay in Marihatag town.
The wardens were transporting the prisoners when about 3 dozen New People’s Army rebels attacked them and sprung the detainees, who are both members of the communist group arrested in February in Lianga town for possessing improvised explosives.
Troops were sent to the area to track down the ambushers, but the military’s Eastern Mindanao Command did not release any information or statement about the daring ambush or progress of the pursuit operation.
The identities of the abducted wardens or their wounded companions were not immediate available. The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology also did not issue any statement.
The rebels have been fighting for many decades now for the establishment of a separate state in the country. (Mindanao Examiner)
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