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.
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