A 19-year-old female student was wounded when New People’s
Army rebels fired upon Philippine Army soldiers at the Gulay
Mayer National
High School in Barangay Matagangtang,
Placer, Masbate at about 8:45 p.m. Thursday, a
belated police report said Saturday.
The report identified the victim as Jesel E. Arreglado, a
college student and a resident of the place.
Arreglado was hit on her back by shrapnel when an M203
grenade hit the concrete fence of the house of Rebecca C. Catampongan.
Relatives immediately brought her to the Cataingan District
Hospital
They later transferred the wounded girl to the Masbate Provincial Hospital
The report said joint elements of Charlie Company, 565th
Engineering Battalion, 51st Engineering Brigade and the Alpha Company, 9th
Infantry Battalion, 9th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army, led by 1Lt.
Olymer C. Bermudez Jr., were harassed and fired upon by an undetermined number
of armed men believed to be NPA members.
The firefight lasted for five minutes that resulted in the
wounding of Arreglado.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=834789
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