P16M in heavy equipment torched in Silay City
BACOLOD CITY—Some P16 million worth of heavy equipment had been set on fire by still unidentified assailants in a quarry site in Hacienda Vista Alegre in Silay City, Negros Occidental province past midnight on Monday (April 12).
Burned were three backhoes, reportedly owned by Arnie Benedicto, of Silay, and Ryan Villan, of Bacolod City,
Police said that the heavy equipment was being rented by village council man Ramy Bilandres.
A certain Randy Baylon, caretaker of Hacienda Vista Alegre, was the one who discovered that the heavy equipment had been burned.
Villan, who is the manager of the hacienda, said he discovered that a road going to the hacienda had several rebel checkpoint notices.
There are suspicions, however, that those behind the arson could be elements out to discredit New People’s Army.
