A trooper from the 73rd Infantry Battalion was wounded during an encounter with an estimated 40 New People's Army (NPA) fighters in Malita town, Davao Del Sur Sunday afternoon.
Capt. Alberto Caber, Eastern Mindanao Command public affairs
office chief, said that the soldiers were conducting routine security patrols
in Purok Glamang, Sitio Malbag, Barangay Little Baguio, of the above-mentioned
town when they encountered rebel forces under one alias "Dodong" of
the NPA Far South Regional Committee at 5: 45 p.m.
A 45-minute firefight then erupted and resulted in the
wounding of the government soldier and several others in the NPA rank.
Troops are still conducting pursuit operations.
It can be recalled that the security forces under the AFP's
Eastern Mindanao Command supported the heightened PNP checkpoints at strategic
areas to complement the pursuit operations of military units following the
atrocities and rampage perpetrated by NPA bandits in some parts of Agusan del
Sur and Davao Del Sur.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=796462
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