NPA amazon nabbed in CamNorte

From Malaya (Feb 5): NPA amazon nabbed in CamNorte

A FEMALE leader of the New People’s Army was arrested Monday in Camarines Norte. Nancy Ortega alias Nads and Sads was arrested by soldiers of the Army’s 902nd Brigade and local policemen around 8:30 p.m. Monday in San Roque village, Iriga City by virtue of a warrant for multiple frustrated murder. She did not resist arrest, said Maj. Angelo Guzman, spokesman of the Army’s 9th Infantry Division.

Guzman said Ortega is secretary of the NPA in the province and a member of the executive committee of the Bicol Regional Party Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines.

He said the operation was launched after security forces received information Ortega would be visiting relatives in Iriga City.

Ortega led an attack on a military team doing community service in Barangay Maot, Labo, Camarines Norte in April last year. The attack left four soldiers, who are engaged in community development work, and a civilian dead.

In Bukidnon also on Monday, an NPA rebel died in a clash with forces of the 8th Infantry Battalion in Halapitan town.

The soldiers were on security operation when they caught up with about 10 rebels. The rebels withdrew after a 10-minute gunfight. They left behind their dead comrade, said Lt. Col. Eugenio Julio Osias, 4th Infantry Division spokesman.

In Northern Samar also Monday, troops from the Army’s 20th Infantry Battalion seized an NPA camp in Luisita village, Victoria town.

Capt. Gene Orense, spokesman of the 8th ID, said the camp is believed to have been abandoned by the NPA four days earlier, apparently to evade soldiers who have intensified counter-insurgency operations in the province. Orense said civilians reported the presence of the rebel camp.

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