By Hirohito D. Cadion
PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, May 16 (PNA)
-– The combined police and military forces have captured one of the six New
People’s Army (NPA) rebels responsible in the ambush slay attempt of a
policeman in this province, a top police official announced Friday.
Captured was Efren Binigay, 25, a resident of
Sitio Gatian, Barangay Timolan in Tigbao, Zamboanga Del Sur, according to
provincial police director, Senior Supt. Sofronio Ecaldre.
Ecaldre said that Binigay was captured Thursday
by the combined police and Army’s 53rd Infantry
Battalion forces in a pursuit
operation in the hinterlands of Tigbao town.
The pursuit operations was launched after six
NPA rebels ambushed Senior Police Officer 4 (SPO4) Eleazar C. Carcallas on
Wednesday in Barangay Tigbao, Tigabao town.
Although wounded, Carcallas was able to put up
a fight until reinforcement arrived, forcing the rebels to fled.
Carcallas was on the way home from duty at the
time he was ambushed.
Ecaldre said that Binigay is now detained at
the provincial headquarters while appropriate charges are set to be filed
against him.
The pursuing forces have
seized high-powered firearms when they captured Binigay, Ecaldre said. (PNA)
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