LEGAZPI CITY –– A civilian found a cache of firearms and ammunition on Saturday noon in an abandoned house in Bulan town in Sorsogon.
Brigadier General Anthony Alcañeses, Bicol police chief, said the police recovered ten M16 rifles, 64 boxes each containing 40 pieces of ammunition used for AK-47 rifles, and 21 boxes of M16 ammunition.
Alcañeses said a civilian reported to the Bulan police station the discovery of the arms cache hidden at an abandoned house in Sitio (sub-village) Angas in Barangay Otavi around 10 a.m.
The town police station coordinated with the Philippine Army and immediately dispatched a composite team to get the firearms and ammunition that were turned over to the town police station.
Police investigators could not yet say whether the arms cache was a government issue, or it belonged to a group of suspected New People’s Army (NPA), or a criminal group operating in the province.