Government troops clashed with New People’s Army rebels on
Tuesday in the southern Philippine province
of North Cotabato
Major Ezra Balagtey, a spokesman for the Eastern Mindanao
Command, said the fighting in the village
of Sumalili
He said there were no casualties on both sides, but troops
from the 84th Infantry Battalion have recovered an AK-47 assault
rifle, a .45-caliber pistol, two fragmentation grenades, three magazines and
ammunition for M16 automatic rifle, and a rifle grenade, including 10 jungle
packs and a medical kit.
Balagtey said the soldiers were patrolling the village when
they ran into a group of communist rebels and a firefight ensued.
He said General Aurelio Baladad, chief of the Eastern
Mindanao Command, vowed to pursue the rebels unless they surrender
peacefully.
“We will not allow them to continue intimidating the
communities and launch anti-development atrocities that will hamper
the delivery of development and socio economic growth in the countryside,”
the spokesman quoted Baladad as saying.
The NPA has been waging a separatist war for many decades
now in an effort to overthrow the democratic government and install a Maoist
state in the country.
http://www.mindanaoexaminer.net/2015/02/army-troops-clash-with-rebels-in.html
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