From the December 7 edition of the CPP publication Ang Bayan: Government troops ambushed in Aurora
New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas under the Domingo Erlano Command (DEC-NPA) in Aurora ambushed 48th IB troops on November 22 in Maria Aurora, Aurora province. According to DEC-NPA-Aurora spokesperson Ka Rowena Cervantes, an NPA platoon ambushed troops that had arrived in response to the burning of a dump truck and a backhoe owned by Angel Palacios Constructions. The first military truck loaded with about 20 soldiers was hit by three anti-personnel command-detonated explosives at 8:15 a.m. in Barangay Villa, Maria Aurora. The military was unable to return fire. Policemen aboard five motorcycles came to reinforce the soldiers but were met with sniper fire by the NPA blocking force in Sitio Kamatis, Barangay Villa. Eight policemen were killed on the spot. The Red fighters also blocked approaching soldiers aboard a civilian truck. After a 20-minute gunbattle, the Red fighters made a safe retreat......
According to Ka Rowena Cervantes, the tactical offensive forms part of the NPA’s continuing military campaign in Aurora and Nueva Ecija to hold the butcher 48th IB and other soldiers under the 7th Infantry Division accountable for the mounting number of victims of intimidation, assault, abductions and extrajudicial killings.
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/publications/ang_bayan/20121207/government-troops-ambushed-in-aurora
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