Rebels torch 3 trucks in Surigao

MANILA, Philippines - Suspected communist rebels burned three trailer trucks carrying copra products in Algeria, Surigao del Norte last Monday night, the military said.

Maj. Eugenio Osias IV, spokesman of the Army’s 4th Infantry Division, said the trucks were flagged down and burned by at least eight armed men along the national highway in Barangay Pungtod, Algeria town.

Osias said the cost of the burned trucks and copra products was placed at about P5 million.