(NPA's Rigoberto) But Sanchez said the military’s statement is “pure invention” saying that the NPA only used “guerrilla warfare weapons, such as but not limited to, command-detonated explosives made up of traditional, non-biologically toxic ingredients.”
An electric lineman braves the midday heat as he fixed a line in an intersection along JP Laurel Avenue Davao City (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Two days after the Philippine government called for an end to violence and a militant lawmaker urged for the resumption of peace negotiations with communist rebels, seven government troops were hurt by explosives purportedly detonated by the New People’s Army at dawn Tuesday in Pantukan town, Compostela Valley.
Ret. Col. Yusop Jimlani, head of the city’s demolition team said their enforcement of the rule is not meant to demolish vendors from their livelihood but to ‘rearrange’ vending stalls to decongest sidewalks. He appeals to sidewalk vendors to follow the city’s rule to occupy only one-third of the sidewalk so not to congest traffic of passersby. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
An electric tower of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) collapsed Sunday night in Maguindanao due to an explosion, military reports said, causing power outage near the area.