THE Police Regional Office in Northern Mindanao maintained that the group behind the torching of vehicles in Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon last week was the New People's Army .
Police Lieutenant Colonel Surki Sereñas, PRO-10 spokesperson, contradicted a statement from the Army's 403rd Brigade that a criminal group was behind the incident. Sereñas said the suspects could not have been a criminal gang because of their number and their armaments. "There are certain parameters for us to consider a group as a ‘criminal gang’ and this group cannot be considered one taking into account the number and armaments. They are about 100 of them who were armed with high powered assault rifles like M16 and AK47," he said."They cannot simply be called a gang. If we don’t call them NPA, we might instead call them armed group.
Colonel Edgardo de Leon, commander of 403rd Infantry Brigade, said they were still investigating the modus operandi of the group.
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