Thursday, February 25, 2016

Soldiers extend medical services, clash with NPA rebels in Bukidnon

From the Philippine News Agency (Feb 24): Soldiers extend medical services, clash with NPA rebels in Bukidnon

Communist guerillas clashed with government troopers anew in Bukidnon Tuesday while the military was on an outreach program there.

A military report reaching here Wednesday, said that the government troops encountered about 30 heavily armed members of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) in the mountain villages of Cabanglasan, Bukidnon.

Capt. Norman Tagros, spokesperson of the Army's 8th Infantry Battalion (8IB), said that the firefight lasted for about an hour, leaving no casualty on the government side.

“Except for bloodstains along the NPA withdrawal routes, the military did not recover bodies in the place of the armed encounter,” Tagros said.

Recovered from the encounter site were bloodstained medical paraphernalia, subversive documents, improvised explosive device (IED) and 100-meter detonating wires.

Tagros said that the government troops were conducting a security patrol in the outskirt of the Cananggaan village when fired upon by the NPA guerrillas.

He said that some members of the 8IB were then extending a medical outreach for the village residents, mostly members of the indigenous peoples in Cananggaan, when the armed skirmishes took place in the village outskirt.

The military was able to serve a total of about 500 local residents through consultation, giving of free medicines, tooth extraction and other dental services, circumcision, livestock immunization, and free haircut service, all part of the of the outreach program, Tagros said.

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=860500

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