Posted to the Faces, Places, & Voices (Ranger Cabunzky) Blog (Dec 3): Roadside
bomb kills a Scout Ranger in Basilan
UNGKAYA PUKAN, Basilan--Unidentified lawless elements detonate
a roadside bomb as soldiers on security patrol passed by at around 7:50am,
killing one and wounding another.
A military report from the 4th Scout Ranger
Battalion said that SSgt Albert Galvez was leading a team of soldiers to secure
the road along Cabangalan village when they were met by a bomb blast. Two soldiers were injured by bomb shrapnels but
one died while being transported to a local hospital here. The other wounded
soldier was already declared out of danger by attending physicans. Lt
Col Armand Arevalo, the Commanding Officer of the 4th Scout Ranger Battalion has
conducted investigation in coordination with the local PNP. The
identities of the victims are withheld pending the notification of immediate
kin.Aside from conducting pursuit operations against lawless elements,
soldiers here are deployed to secure the Basilan Circumferential Road (BCR).
A small band of lawless armed group are hunted down by Army
soldiers for the series of atrocities against civilians in Sumisip town.
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