PNP 8 chief denounces NPA’s devious killing of 8 Catarman policemen

By Philippine Information Agency (PIA 8)
August 22, 2010

TACLOBAN CITY  –  Police Chief Superintendent Arnold Rayala Revilla, Police Region 8 Director condemned the brutal killing of 8 Catarman police officers who were on their way to a call of duty, at about 8:30 in the morning of August 21, 2010 at Barangay Imelda, Catarman, Northern Samar.

Director Revilla informed that a PNP team led by the Deputy Chief of Police of the Catarman Municipal Police Station together with seven police officers were aboard a Toyota Hi Lux patrol car on their way to Barangay Imelda to conduct an investigation regarding the reported shooting and killing of a barangay kagawad in his residence by communists.

Suddenly, the team was waylaid by some forty communist terrorists with the use of a landmine. The patrol car was directly hit by the landmine wounding the policemen.

The communist terrorists were not contented, the wounded policemen were shot at repeatedly. With all the 8 policemen killed, the communist terrorists took the police firearms and personal belongings.

Director Revilla said that this violent incident perpetrated by the communist terrorists is a clear manifestation of the leftist rebels’ intent to carry out terroristic acts against civilians and government troops. Such devious acts show that they are violators of laws and enemies of the State and the peace-loving citizens. In brutally killing the eight Catarman police officers, the communists killed not only the victims’ dreams but also the dreams of their respective families and the community who trusted and believed in them.