BACOLOD CITY -- Policemen tagged the New People’s Army (NPA) as behind the burning incident that left P600,000 worth of damage on two trucks in Barangay Tabun-ac Proper, Toboso, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Dec. 14.
Toboso police chief Major Jun Ray Batadlan said that eight unidentified armed men arrived and asked some sugarcane workers about their salaries.
The workers were gathered in an area far from the two trucks.
Batadlan said the workers were supposed to load sugarcane on the trucks, when armed men burned the machines of the vehicles and fled.
Batadlan said that it was the first time that such an incident happened to the truck owner, who is one of the biggest landowners in the town.