ZAMBOANGA CITY: Communist rebels have claimed responsibility for a daring raid on a logging company in Sultan Kudarat province in Mindanao in southern Philippines.

Efren Aksasato, a spokesman for the New People’s Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, said the raiders destroyed a backhoe, a grader, two dump trucks and a logging truck, among other equipment and assets of M&S Co. Inc., an affiliate of David M. Consunji Inc. (DMCI), in the village of Hinalaan in Kalamansig town.