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MASBATE CITY – The mayor of Cataingan city in Masbate province issued an emergency memorandum order on Wednesday, March 22, to droop lessons in a few of their villages resulting from armed encounters between members of the New People’s Army (NPA) and Army troopers in neighboring cities.
Cataingan Mayor Felipe Cabataña, who can be chair of the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (MDDRMC), addressed the memorandum “to all concerned school heads and Punong Barangay (Barangay chairmans) of the municipality.”
The memo ordered the suspension of lessons in all private and non-private faculties in any respect ranges “until further notice.”
But, the memo excludes Barangays: Aguada, Concepcion, Curvada, Domorog, Gahit, Madamba, Malobago, Matayum, Mintac, Pawican, Poblacion, Quezon, San Pedro, Sta. Teresita, Sto. Niño and Tagboan. The memo supplied no rationalization for the exemption of different barangays.
“All school heads and barangay authorities are hereby advised to take all precautionary measures to prevent any untoward incident, particularly to the pupils, students, and civilians,” the memorandum reads.
The memo was issued after one other firefight broke out between troopers and rebels Wednesday morning after the flag-raising ceremony in neighboring Placer city.
Bernadette Borbe, a instructor in Locso-an Elementary School in Barangay Locso-an in Placer, stated that at 7:40 a.m., whereas they have been taking footage for the Women’s Month Celebration, an explosion, adopted by gunfire was heard across the neighborhood of the varsity.
“We were scared when we heard the explosion and gunfire. The teachers and other students ran inside the classroom. In every classroom, there were advisers and interns from Cataingan Municipal College to support the students who were crying out of fear,” Borbe stated. The college was closed for the day.
On Monday, March 21, at round 10:20 a.m., a conflict additionally occurred in Barangay Villahermosa in one other adjoining city of Cawayan the place Corporal Antonio Parreño Jr. of the 2nd Infantry Batallion was slain.
The encounter prompted the officers of Villahermosa National High School to shift from in-person lessons to modular distance studying for every week since Monday. Franshey Mae Drio, contributor
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