NPA rebels own up Davao Sur ambush

ZAMBOANGA CITY: Communist rebels owned up to the fatal ambush of a police team in Davao del Sur last week, composed mostly of forensic experts, and boasted about how they carefully planned and carried out the daring attack.

Rigoberto Sanchez, the New People’s Army (NPA) spokesman, said rebel forces from the Mount Apo Subregional Operations Command also seized four weapons from the police officers slain in the village of Sibayan, Bansalan town on March 8.