From the Visayan Daily Star (Aug 16): Army, rebels engage in brief encounter
Army soldiers figured in about five minutes of gunbattle with a group of suspected New People’s Army rebels yesterday in Brgy. Tan-awan, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental.
No casualty was reported on the government side, but this would not be undetermined on the part of about 10 suspected rebels, who scampered away in various directions, Senior Supt. Milko Lirazan, provincial police director of Negros Occidental, said.
Soldiers of the 47th Infantry Battalion Headquarters Service Company
led by a certain 2Lt. Raner were conducting a scouring operation in Sitio Sanggapa, Brgy. Tan-awan, Kabankalan,when they encountered about 10 rebels reportedly as members of the Sangay sa Partido Platoon-Central of the NPA at about 2 p.m. yesterday.
Recovered at the encounter site were ammunition of various calibers of firearms and a back pack. Pursuit operations against the fleeing rebels were still ongoing as of last night.
http://www.visayandailystar.com/2013/August/17/topstory11.htm
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