TWO soldiers were killed in a landmine explosion, Feb. 19, in Pamatsaken, Sumisip, Basilan, reports reaching the 1st Infantry “Tabak” Division in Camp Cesar Sang-an, Pulacan, Labangan, Zamboanga del Sur said.
The report went on to say that 32nd IB “Daredevil” troops were heading for Maluso in search for the two kidnapped Chinese nationals who were reported to have been sighted in Pamatsaken with an armed group when one of the soldiers stepped on an improvised landmine.
Major Gen. Romeo Lustestica identified the two fatalities as PFC Ramton Martel, a resident of Lumbia District, this city, and PFC Hamid Aki, of Sinunuc, Zamboanga City.
Lustestica and wife, Marilou, handed a P20,000 cash assistance to the family of Martel during the military official’s visit at Fatima Funeral Homes this weekend.
It was learned that the family of the slain soldiers, aside from the burial assistance, will also received P250,000 cash assistance and house and lot from the Office of the President while their children will also avail of free education scholarship assistance from elementary up to college.
Lustestica recalled that the 32nd IB “Daredevils” stationed in Lanao del Norte were sent off to Basilan, August last year, to augment to Marine troops in the area.
About 20 men disguised as soldiers kidnapped Zi Shun Lu, alias Oscar Lu; and Bo Shung Tan alias Michael Tan, November last year, from a plywood factory in Sitio Buting, Maluso along with a Filipino worker identified as Mark Singson.
Singson was later beheaded after his employer, Hi-Tech Wood Craft Corp. failed to pay the P1.5 million ransom demand.
The Basilan provincial crisis management committee, headed by Vice-governor Alrasheed Sakalahul, said the kidnappers of the Chinese nationals demanded P13-million ransom for their release.
Sakalahul said the kidnappers are most likely related to the dreaded Abu Sayyaf Group as he disclosed the two kidnapped victims are still alive but no updates were given by their captors as to the status of their health.
Last Feb. 2, a soldier from the 32nd IB died and eight others were wounded in a landmine explosion while on board a six by six armored truck traversing between the villages of Libug and Cabacan.
September, last year, a land mine blew up a Humvee carrying two American soldiers and a Filipino marine and killing them on the spot. The Americans were army non-combatants helping supervise a school-building project.
REPORT BY JONG CADION
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The report went on to say that 32nd IB “Daredevil” troops were heading for Maluso in search for the two kidnapped Chinese nationals who were reported to have been sighted in Pamatsaken with an armed group when one of the soldiers stepped on an improvised landmine.
Major Gen. Romeo Lustestica identified the two fatalities as PFC Ramton Martel, a resident of Lumbia District, this city, and PFC Hamid Aki, of Sinunuc, Zamboanga City.
Lustestica and wife, Marilou, handed a P20,000 cash assistance to the family of Martel during the military official’s visit at Fatima Funeral Homes this weekend.
It was learned that the family of the slain soldiers, aside from the burial assistance, will also received P250,000 cash assistance and house and lot from the Office of the President while their children will also avail of free education scholarship assistance from elementary up to college.
Lustestica recalled that the 32nd IB “Daredevils” stationed in Lanao del Norte were sent off to Basilan, August last year, to augment to Marine troops in the area.
About 20 men disguised as soldiers kidnapped Zi Shun Lu, alias Oscar Lu; and Bo Shung Tan alias Michael Tan, November last year, from a plywood factory in Sitio Buting, Maluso along with a Filipino worker identified as Mark Singson.
Singson was later beheaded after his employer, Hi-Tech Wood Craft Corp. failed to pay the P1.5 million ransom demand.
The Basilan provincial crisis management committee, headed by Vice-governor Alrasheed Sakalahul, said the kidnappers of the Chinese nationals demanded P13-million ransom for their release.
Sakalahul said the kidnappers are most likely related to the dreaded Abu Sayyaf Group as he disclosed the two kidnapped victims are still alive but no updates were given by their captors as to the status of their health.
Last Feb. 2, a soldier from the 32nd IB died and eight others were wounded in a landmine explosion while on board a six by six armored truck traversing between the villages of Libug and Cabacan.
September, last year, a land mine blew up a Humvee carrying two American soldiers and a Filipino marine and killing them on the spot. The Americans were army non-combatants helping supervise a school-building project.
REPORT BY JONG CADION
www.micmedina.tk
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