PAGADIAN CITY (Mindanao Examiner / May 27, 2012) – An army commander who was sacked for failing to prevent a rebel attack at an airport construction site in Albay province in Luzon Island has been transferred to Basilan province in the southern Philippines.
Colonel Arthur Ang, commander of 901st Infantry Brigade, will now head the 104th Infantry Brigade in Basilan, one of the five provinces under the Muslim autonomous region.
He would be replaced by Colonel Ricardo Visaya, the current Basilan army commander, as the new 901st Infantry Brigade chief.
Communist rebels also raided an army detachment and wounded two soldiers guarding the airport in Daraga town on May 18. Rebel forces torched construction equipment before fleeing after the dating raid. (Mindanao Examiner)
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