A soldier was killed as fresh fighting between the communist guerrillas erupted on the border of Bukidnon and Misamis Oriental Thursday morning, the military reported on Friday.
Capt. Christian Uy, spokesperson of the army’s Public Affairs Division here, identified the lone fatality as PFC Acmad Maruhom, who was killed in a 20-minute firefight with communist guerrillas of the New People’s Army (NPA) in the outskirt
Uy said that the communist guerrillas clearly violated the “unilateral ceasefire” which the NPA themselves asked during the observance of the Christmas holidays.
He said that the soldiers who were members of the Peace and Development Team were conducting community services in the area when fired upon by the NPA in gross violation of the unilateral ceasefire.
Uy said that the NPA flaunted their guns and firearms in a show of force during a propaganda blitz in observance of the NPA’s 45th anniversary on Thursday by posting banners and posters along the highways in the eastern coast of
He said that the military would have launched a tracking team to engage the armed communist guerrillas in Misamis Oriental and elsewhere in
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