Camp
Lukban, Catbalogan City
– The NPA stormed the village of Brgy Taylor in Las Navas, Northern Samar indiscriminately
firing their weapons on civilian community at 8:30 am yesterday that resulted
to the killing of a four-year old boy who was inside their house at the time of
the attack.
Community development
personnel from 63IB who were on their way to the Barangay immediately responded
to the scene of the incident to secure the village and protect the people and extended
immediate assistance to the victims. The troops also secured the area for
investigation by the SOCO Team of the PNP. After which, the troops conducted
pursuit operation as the perpetrators fled the area.
The local officials of Brgy
Taylor headed by Brgy Chairperson Marie Claire Tuling are now preparing their
complaints against the local communist terrorists.
The 63rd
Infantry Battalion that secures the area will assist the Brgy officials and the
victims in filing a criminal case against the NPA perpetrators as well as complaints
before the Commission on Human Rights and the GPH-NDF Joint Monitoring
Committee.
This is already the third
time in a period of seven (7) months that the NPA staged their attacks on
civilian communities. The local communist
terrorists raided Hinabangan, Samar in September 2011 and attacked Lapinig,
Northern Samar just this January.###
