The rebels belonging to the New People's Army (NPA) also took away three shotguns, 18 pistols and eight handheld radios from security guards at the construction site in Silay City.
"The attack was apparently because of the refusal of the contractors to pay revolutionary taxes," Colonel Felicisimo Budiongan, head of the army in Negros Occidental province, told reporters.
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