Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division take a break from the intense summer heat during a pursuit operation against the NPA in Surigao del Norte.
A soldier and two suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were killed after two successive days of encounter in the hinterlands of Claver town in Surigao del Norte.
1Lt Joe Patrick Martinez, commanding officer of the 42nd Civil Military Operation (CMO) battalion, said the clashes started last Thursday.
“The soldier was killed after a 15-minute firefight between elements of the 30IB against around 15 NPA members in Sitio Pamyunon, Barangay Sapa in Claver town. The next day, Friday May 17 our troops from the 42nd Division Reconnaissance Company caught up with the fleeing rebels in Barangay Cabugo at around 1:30 in the afternoon resulting in a 30-minute exchange of gunfire,” said Martinez.
In the ensuing firefight, two NPA rebels were killed and Martinez expected several more were wounded."The report that we have on the field is that other than the two NPA members who were killed in the encounter, several more are wounded since our soldiers saw them trying to carry their wounded combatants off the area and there were blood trails in the area,” he said.
The CMO officer said they recovered an M-16 and Ak-47.
“We’ve brought the body of the two slain NPAs to a funeral home in the neighboring town of Bacuag since we don’t have any funeral facility here in Claver. Samples of the fingerprints were also taken in the hopes of revealing the identity of the slain NPA members. We are also stepping up our security and placed checkpoints in key strategic locations,” said Acelo.
The municipal police chief said the place of the encounter is a regular staging area for NPA activity. “It is a mountainous area, about 10 kilometers away from the center of the town and 5 to 7 kilometers from the mining area of Taganito Mining Corporation. There have been several encounters between soldiers and the NPA in that vicinity over the past few years," he added.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/62081/1-soldier-2-npas-killed-in-surigao-del-norte-clashes
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