Government forces are scouring the hinterlands in pursuit of some 50 New People’s Army (NPA) rebels who detonated an improvised bomb that injured five soldiers Tuesday in this municipality, an official disclosed.
Army’s 1st Infantry Division spokesman Capt. Jefferson Somera said Wednesday the NPA rebels who are being pursued belong to the Western Mindanao Regional Party Committee (WMRPC).
Somera said the NPA rebels set off an improvised bomb fashioned out as landmine as they were about to be cornered by the troops at the height of a firefight Tuesday at Sitio Ludiaw, Barangay Dagum, this municipality.
Somera withheld the identities of the soldiers, who were slightly wounded, except that they belong to the Army’s 53rd Infantry Battalion led by Lt. Col. Victor Tangawohn.
Somera said the firefight broke out when the troops responded to the reported presence of the NPA rebels in Sitio Ludiaw, Barangay Dagum.
The NPA rebels were conducting house-to-house visitation that caused fear among the residents in the area, he said.
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