PAGADAIN CITY,
Zamboanga del Sur (July 19, 2018)– A notorious Communist New People’s Army (NPA) Terrorist Leader was
killed while two AFP personnel were wounded during a combined Philippine
National Police (PNP) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) law enforcement
operation in Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte Thursday, military official said.
Major Ronald E. Suscano, Division Public Affairs
Office (DPAO) Chief disclosed that the Combined PNP and AFP Law Enforcement
Operations was conducted by elements of the AFP’s Joint Task Group IGSOON and
the Zamboanga del Norte Provincial Office against Mr. Edwin Lapinig AKA Baz for
his standing warrant of arrest charged for multiple murder
in criminal case number TC-2017-140 issued by Regional Trial Court 10th
Judicial Region, Branch 16, Tangub City.
Maj. Suscano said that Edwin Lapinig AKA Baz was
the Commander of the Platoon BASIL of the Mobile Regional Guerilla Unit (MRGU)
of the Western Mindanao Regional Party Committee (WMRPC) of the New People’s
Army (NPA). He was responsible for the murders of two AFP soldiers, the
disarming of PNP personnel at Don Victoriano Chiongbian Municipality of the
Province of Misamis Occidental and the series of arson of development
construction equipment in the Zamboanga Peninsula.
Lapinig was killed when he fired at the combined
PNP and AFP forces which prompted the government forces to fire back. The law
enforcement operation resulted to the death of Edwin Lapinig and the wounding
of two AFP personnel, Suscano added.
Major General Roseller Murillo, Commander of the
AFP's Joint Task Force ZAMPELAN,congratulated the troops
of the PNP and AFP on a successful combined law enforcement operation and said,
"we will continue our security operations in our area of responsibility in
order to ensure the safety and well-being of the people." He urged the
families, relatives and neighbors of remaining NPA terrorists to lay down their
arms and live peacefully with their families. (By JONG CADION)
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