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.
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