[Inquirer] Two more police officers have been murdered in as many weeks in an ambush by the communist New People's Army. The attack occurred on Thursday evening in Candoni, Negros Occidental.Chief Supt. Wilben Mayor, "The two fallen agents of the law had just performed a routine police assistance function to a stabbing victim when they themselves were treacherously attacked. They will be accorded appropriate funeral honors befitting their heroism and service."
"The perpetrators of this action will be hunted down and will be made to pay for their crime," Mayor added.
The Negros Occidental attack happened less than a week after an NPA ambush on February 16 in Baggao, Cagayan, in which six policemen died when the militants attacked them using grenade launchers.