Investigators have yet to establish the identities of more or less 10 armed men who figured in a shootout with policemen before midnight Wednesday when they put to the torch five air-conditioned buses of Victory Liner at its downtown terminal here.
Police Regional Director Chief Superintendent Luizo Ticman personally inspected the terminal attacked by the armed men after awarding wounded personnel medals for bravery and heroism on the six wounded policemen of Lingayen, now confined at the Region I Medical Center and Trauma Specialist Hospital in Dagupan City.
Ticman said they are checking on all angles as to the motive of the attack, including the possibility of its being part of the extortion activities of the New People’s Army since several more buses of the firm were torched in the past.
The firefight occurred just outside the bus terminal on Avenida Rizal st. in Lingayen when the policemen were conducting a routine patrol aboard their mobile unit.
Also hospitalized for second degree burns all over his body was a bus conductor known only by his last name Muyano, a native of Zambales, who was sleeping in the back seat of one of the burned buses.
As this developed, Governor Amado Espino Jr. expressed his personal condemnation over the attack by armed men at the Victory Liner bus terminal, calling this an unconscionable act and arrogant display of terrorism.
“I condemn the attack and the burning of five buses of the Victory Liner Bus Co. right inside its terminal compound in Lingayen. This is an unconscionable and arrogant display of terrorism, destabilizing the normal flow of economic activities,†Espino said in a press statement. source: PNA
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