Two teams of 2nd Provincial Mobile Group troopers were dispatched yesterday to Don Salvador Benedicto, to help the town police in conducting aggressive operations against an independent armed group.

Senior Supt. Charles Calima, provincial police director, yesterday said the 2nd PMG troopers will man the police outpost to be established in Brgy. Kumaliskis, Salvador Benedicto, and he has ordered Chief Inspector Calixto Mabugat, 2nd PMG commander, to lead the operations against the armed group.

Three cities and six town police stations in Negros Occidental have been classified by the police as highly vulnerable to New People's Army attacks.

The armed group allegedly being utilized in a land dispute problem is being linked by the two families contesting the ownership of 13-hectare property with the family of Conrado Abay, to Don Salvador Benedicto Councilor Vicente "Oti" Bacordo whose niece is the wife of Antonio Abay, son of Conrado.

The land dispute is between families of Abay and that of Noel Benedicto and Samuel Española.

The 2nd PMG used to have its headquarters in Salvador Benedicto, before it was transferred to Camp Alfredo Montelibano Sr. in Bacolod City, by then Negros Occidental police director Geary Barias.*GPB

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