I was talking to my honey over the phone last night between 11:30 and 12 midnight when I overheard gunshots followed by an explosion. Then, my boyfriend reported that a nearby place was on fire. It turned out that the Victory Liner Station was an inferno, specifically the buses inside the station. According to news reports, the bus company personnel were locked inside the bathroom by armed men telling them to keep their mouth shut so that no people would get harm. It happened that a roving police vehicle passed by and saw the armed men and started firing shots at each other. 5 policemen were dangerously shot and one is reportedly dead. A conductor sleeping inside on one of the 5 char buses suffered a third degree burn. The police suspects that members of the New People’s Army were behind the crime incident.
People in the municipality of Lingayen began to wonder why are these insurgencies happens more often after a change of provincial administration. Has this had something to do with the provincial buses purchased by the provincial government? Are the townspeople trying to intimidate the local power of the province? Why buses? Where are the projects? Tsk…tsk…tsk…
Anyway, out of curiosity, we went to the site the night after the incident (today). The site is creepy. It’s really a tragic site. The people residing nearby the incident, I bet, were traumatized. All we could do is to pray.
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