Mt. Prov envi’ment office truck burned

BAUKO, Mountain Province – Still unidentified arsonists torched a pickup truck owned by the Environment Office of Mountain Province here last week. 

Authorities are still looking for clues on what happened to a pickup truck found burned along the Abatan-Bagnen provincial road in Sitio Gipik.

Provincial police said a farmer noticed the vehicle on fire on morning of August 4 and reported it to authorities. 

Bauko town police and firefighters said they noticed odor of gasoline from the wreckage of the burned vehicle.

The vehicle was reportedly used by employees of the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office-Sabangan and Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office-Bontoc a day earlier in operations against illegal logging and in monitoring the watershed of Bila, Bauko located at Mount Ambodaaw and Mount Dandanak.

Police said the vehicle cost around P555,000.