MANILA, Philippines – Communist rebels killed a security guard for an American-owned gold mining company in the southern Philippines on Thursday and took the weapons of three others, police said.
About 60 New People's Army guerrillas flagged down four motorcycle-riding guards on a remote mining road and seized three assault rifles and three radios from the group, police Chief Aaron Aquino of Compostela Valley province said.
Aquino said one of the guards working for Russell Mining & Minerals Inc. apparently resisted and was fatally shot.
The rebels fled after releasing the three others and were being pursued by soldiers, he said.
Private security guards are not authorized to carry assault rifles and police have repeatedly warned that such weapons attract rebels, Aquino said.
The rebels have warned that they will launch actions against mining and logging companies, accusing them of taking land from peasants and indigenous people, destroying the environment and not economically helping local people.
The insurgents have fought for a Marxist state for decades.
(This version CORRECTS in paragraph 3 that guard, not rebel, was killed)
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