NPA rebels injure detachment head

From the Visayan Daily Star (Nov 28): NPA rebels injure detachment head

An Army detachment commander was injured when an isolated military outpost was harassed by two suspected New People’s Army rebels in Sitio Bugtong Kahoy, Brgy. Asia, Hinoba-an, Negros Occidental, at about 8:30 a.m. yesterday.

Army SSgt. Ricky Ignacio was hit in his hips. However, he is now in a stable condition, Col. Benedict Arevalo, 303rd Infantry Brigade commander, said last night.

Ignacio was next to a police officer, who was also injured, in a previous incident of harassment staged and claimed by the NPA in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental, last month.

The New People’s Army Leonardo Panaligan Command had also claimed earlier the killing of Army Cpl. Rex Derramas on Nov. 4 in a mountainous barangay of Trinidad in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental.

The harassment of a detachment being constructed in Brgy. Asia, Hinoba-an, took place several days after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the deployment of additional military and police personnel in Negros Occidental and Oriental, as well as in Bicol and Samar, to suppress the lawlessness and violent activities of the CPP-NPA.

Arevalo said the NPA rebels immediately withdrew after government troops returned fire at their location.

Government troops are still pursuing the fleeing rebels.

http://www.visayandailystar.com/2018/November/28/topstory2.htm