A number of armed confrontations between government forces
and the New People’s Army (NPA) rebels were recorded after the 10th Infantry
(Agila) Division intensified its security operations in its areas of
jurisdiction.
On Feb. 6 at around 5 a.m., elements of Bravo Company of the
73rd Infantry Battalion engaged a group of fully-armed NPA rebels belonging to
guerrilla front 71 of the Far South Mindanao Region (FSMR) in the boundaries of
Jose Abad Santos town in Davao Occidental and Glan, Sarangani, Captain Rhyan
Batchar, chief information officer of the 10th ID said in a statement on
Monday.
Batchar added that the second encounter took place on the
same date, at around 2:30 p.m. in Sitio Binotaam, Barangay Kingking, Pantukan, Compostela Valley
On Feb. 7, at around 3 p.m., another armed encounter that
lasted for six minutes took place between the elements of 46th IB and NPA
rebels in Sitio Logpaton, Barangay Kingking, Pantukan,Compostela Valley
“No soldier was hurt on these incidents while the NPAs were
believed to have suffered casualties as they left behind traces of bloodstains
and various personal effects and other paraphernalia’s after immediately
fleeing the site of the incidents,” Batchar said.
Elements of 46th IB and 73rd IB are still conducting pursuit
operations against the NPAs in their respective areas of operation.
In the same statement, Major General Rafael Valencia,
commander of 10th ID, reiterated his earlier statement that the command’s
campaign against the NPAs would be relentless.
“We will continue our peace and development initiatives for
the people of Davao Region. We encourage NPA members to abandon the armed
struggle and return to the folds of the law. But for those who continue to
choose the path of violence, we will vigorously pursue and defeat them using
legitimate force,” Valencia
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