By CYRUS M. GARDE
BACOLOD City — An official of the Kapatiran para sa Progresong Panlipunan survived an ambush in Sitio Cubay, Barangay Locutan, Kabankalan City, but not without getting injured.
Only identified as Ka Amor, the victim was taken to an unidentified hospital in Kabankalan.
He sustained multiple gunshot wounds, but his condition is improving, according to Victorino Sumulong, spokesperson for Kapatiran.
Ka Amor was the commanding officer of Kapatiran — formerly the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa ng Pilipinas/Revolutionary Proletarian Army–Alex Boncayao Brigade/Tabara Paduano Group — in Locutan, a hinterland village, said Sumulong.
He was on his way to Locutan from Barangay Bantayan at about 10 a.m. on Friday last week when about 12 armed men, hiding in sugarcane fields along both sides of the road, fired at him, said Sumulong.
Ka Amor was armed, too, but failed to fire back, the Kapatiran spokesperson disclosed. Concerned residents took him to the hospital via a tricycle.
Fortunately, “the ambushers failed to finish him off,” Sumulong said.
Based on the style of the ambush, Sumulong suspected that the attackers were New People’s Army (NPA) rebels.
Superintendent Salvador Dagoon, Kabankalan police chief, sent his men to the ambush scene to investigate.
The Revolutionary Proletarian Army–Alex Boncayao Brigade was an NPA splinter group./PN
