At least eight government soldiers and militiamen were killed and five others were wounded Monday morning in twin ambushes by the New People’s Army in North Cotabato province.
Two other soldiers were wounded in an unrelated bomb blast in Maguindanao province.
In the first incident, soldiers of the Army’s 38th Infantry Battalion and militiamen were in a vehicle to deliver the allowances of the Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit stationed in Barangay Bituan in Tulunan town when rebels believed to belong to the NPA’s Guerrilla Fronts 72 and 74 set off an improvised explosive device on the boundary of the village and Barangay Caridad around 9:20 a.m.
The ambush accounted for seven of the fatalities and left Captain Ernesto Aguilar wounded.
At 11:57 a.m., another IED was set off against a truck ferrying soldiers of the 57th Infantry Battalion to Barangay New Cariad, also in Tulunan, killing one and wounding Lieutenant Bruno Hugo and four of his men.
Although North Cotabato is under the jurisdiction of the 6th Infantry Division, the areas where the ambushes happened are part of the operational area of the 10th ID.
Meanwhile, in Maguindanao, two IEDs exploded near a police detachment along the national highway in Datu Unsay town past 9 a.m., wounding two troops of the 45th Infantry Battalion.
The incident prompted the 6th ID to go on red alert.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/73168/npa-ambushes-claim-lives-of-8-troops-injure-5-others-in-north-cotabato
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