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NPA raid in Pampanga, a success
SPO4 Pedro David was caught unawares when a 10-man NPA unit attacked a PNP detachment he was manning alone at the Bulaon Resettlement Site in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga on May 26. He never managed to fight back. The guerrillas seized five M16 rifles and a 9 mm pistol in the 10-minute raid.
When reinforcements led by Supt. Nicanor Targa, San Fernando police chief, arrived at the scene, residents turned off their lights. The enemy was compelled to retreat for fear of being ambushed. The resettlement site is a community of 2,000 families displaced by the Mt. Pinatubo eruption in Zambales in 1991.
Earlier, on May 21, the NPA ambushed several PNP troops in Porac, Pampanga, killing an intelligence agent and wounding another.
Military behind abduction of DENR official
NDF-MINDANAO spokesman Jorge "Ka Oris" Madlos condemned AFP units in Agusan del Norte as the brains behind the abduction of Cristopher Kuizon, regional technical director for operations of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Caraga on Mayo 29. Kuizon was abducted by the Bungkatol Liberation Front (Bulif) in Buenavista, Agusan del Norte. According to Ka Oris, the AFP was not pleased by Kuizon's serious enforcement of the DENR's campaign against illegal logging.
Bulif, a paramilitary group operating among the Lumads in Caraga, was forced to release Kuizon after Ka Oris ordered the NPA to launch a rescue operation.
College tuition fees to rise 15%
TUITION fees in colleges and universities are set to rise when school opens. Some 214 colleges will raise their fees which at present average P313.20 per unit.
Fee hikes will be steepest in Metro Manila where 83 colleges and universities are set to raise them by an average of P60 from their current rate of P614.50 per unit. Region 7 comes in second with a P34.40 per unit increase and Region 11, third, with a P33.35 per unit hike.
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