NPA rebels burn construction equipment

CABANATUAN CITY, Philippines – Four suspected New People’s Army rebels stormed the compound of a construction company in Caranglan, Nueva Ecija Saturday night and burned heavy equipment.

Senior Superintendent Walter Castillejos, provincial police director, said the rebels, including a woman, entered the Northern Builders Co. in Sitio Maligaya, Barangay Putlan, Carangalan at around 8:30 p.m. and asked timekeeper Willy Layug about the letter they gave to the firm’s engineer Riza Organista.              

When Layug could not answer, the rebels, saying Northern Builders does not honor an agreement, poured gasoline on the firm’s two transit mixers and set them on fire.