NPA rebels disarm 2 Isabela cops

CITY OF ILAGAN –– At least 25 heavily armed men, believed to be New People’s Army rebels, held up and disarmed two policemen at Sitio Laguis in Sindon Bayabo village here on Friday morning.

Investigators said Police Capt. Francisco Dayag, Divilacan police chief, sent Police Master Sergeant June Luis Baribad and Police Cpl. Brian Balis to the provincial police office to deliver classified documents.

Baribad and Balisi were on board a motorcycle when armed men intercepted them and took their 9-mm caliber pistols. The armed men headed to the Sierra Madre mountains.

Police have been tracking down the armed men. Villamor Visaya Jr. (Editor: Leti Z. Boniol)