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| Southeast Asia |
| Philippine rebels burn bus drivers to death |
| 2011-03-06 |
| [Straits Times] TWO bus drivers were burnt to death early on Saturday in the Philippines when armed communist guerrillas set fire to their vehicles, police said. A small group of gunnies broke into a bus depot on the remote central island of Biliran before dawn and poured petrol over the parked vehicles, said Senior Superintendent Alfredo Sabornido, the provincial police chief. 'The owner woke up and seeing his buses on fire tried to rescue his drivers, who were sleeping inside the vehicles,' Mr Sabornido told news hounds by telephone. 'However both were burnt to death.' It was unclear if the intruders knew people were asleep inside the vehicles during the arson attack. Police later nabbed two suspects at a checkpoint, said national police front man Chief Superintendent Agrimero Cruz. 'Initial investigation points to NPA extortion,' Mr Cruz told news hounds. |
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