New People's Army (NPA) bandits shot and killed two soldiers
and wounded three others during an ambush at Barangay Lagundi, Catbalogan City ,
Samar Friday night.
In the same attack, the rebels also stole Php1.8 million
worth of subsistence allowance intended for soldiers of the 14th Infantry
Battalion.
The attack took place at 7:40 p.m., 8th Infantry Division
spokesperson Capt. Isagani Viernes said.
The soldiers led by 1Lt. Cherwin B. Lapura, aboard a KM-450
vehicle, were traveling along Maharlika Highway on their way back to base, when
the vehicle hit a rebel-laid landmine, killing two troopers and wounding three
others.
Not content, the NPAs then looted the crippled truck and
fallen troopers of valuables and combat equipment.
Reinforcing units from the military and police hurriedly
responded to the scene and recovered assorted empty shells of different
calibers, including that of an AK-47 rifle, and fragments of landmines made
from PVC pipe and cuttings of steelbar.
Viernes said the 8th Infantry Division strongly condemned
the treacherous acts of the NPAs which were in gross violations of the
Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International
Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) by the NPA to which the communist group was a
signatory.
CARHRIHL provides that parties involved in the agreement
should affirm and apply the principles of international humanitarian law in
order to protect the civilian population and individual civilians, as well as
persons deprived of their liberty for reasons related to the armed conflict and
also guarantees the right against economic and food blockades and
indiscriminate bombings, shelling, strafing, gunfire and the use of landmines.
The wounded soldiers are now recuperating at Camp Lukban
Station Hospital
Pursuit operation is still ongoing. Names of the casualties
are being withheld prior notification of their immediate families.
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