Troops kill commie in Davao Oriental clash

From the Mindanao Examiner (Sep 23): Troops kill commie in Davao Oriental clash

Government troops had killed a communist rebel in a clash in the southern Filipino province of Davao Oriental where security forces are battling members of the New People’s Army.

Captain Alberto Caber, a spokesman for the Eastern Mindanao Command, said soldiers also recovered a homemade bomb and three automatic rifles left behind by rebels. He said no soldiers were killed or wounded in the fighting which occurred September 22 in Calapagan village inn Lupon town.

The fighting, Caber said, lasted over 45 minutes. He said the clash erupted after rebels attacked the soldiers patrolling the village.

“The soldiers were on security patrol in the area when they were fired upon by the NPA members.  There was no casualty on the government side. Troops are still on their pursuit operations,” he said.

Caber said the military had recovered over 100 high-powered firearms in clashes with rebels since early this year in eastern Mindanao.

The NPA has been waging a war for decades now in an effort to put up a communist state in the Philippines. It is now the longest insurgency war in the world.

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