Davao de Oro: Active defense patrol teams for COVID-19 operation were fired upon by undetermined number of CNTs at vicinity Sitio Matinglob ,Brgy Tagdangua, Pantukan, Davao de Oro on April 7, 2020, 6:50am Tuesday.
Report received that civilians were angry as NPAs ransacked their houses due to hunger.
They forced civilian to give them foods and locate troops’ position.
Together with one team from PNP-Regional Mobile Force Company led by Police Leutenant Darwin Garcia while on active defense patrol for COVID-19 operation, 10ID continued its activities to protect the people from CNTs threat and covid-19.
Initial result: *negative casualties on the government side and *one body count on the enemy side and recovered one (1) M4 and one (1) AK47 and several Medicines and Medical Paraphernalia and other NPA materials.
“Sa hirap ng sitwasyon ngayon, lalong nagpahirap itong ginagawa ng mga teroristang NPA. nangransack ng bahay ng civilian at pinilit ang mga tao na bigyan sila ng pagkain, yung iba inutusan na bumili ng pagkain at hanapin ang posisyon ng kasundaluhan” ayon kay Garcia.
Dagdag pa ng opisyal “Di katagalan ay nakita na ng NPA ang nagpapatrolyang tropa, pinaputukan nila ito”.
“Sa palitan ng putok, nasawi ang isang NPA, iniwan ng kanyang kasamahan at narecover mula sa enc site ang dalawang baril. Panawagan namin sa mga CNT, bumaba na kayo at sumuko ng mahinahon. Handa ang gobyerno na tugunan ang inyong pangangailangan sa pamamagitan ng E-CLIP.”/10DPAO