From Malaya Business Insight (Nov 6): Soldier, NPA killed in Quezon clash
A SOLDIER and a New People’s Army rebel were killed while four other communist rebels were injured in a firefight in General Nakar town in Quezon on Sunday, the military said yesterday.
Capt. Patrick Jay Retumban, spokesman of the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division based in Camp Capinpin in Rizal, named the fatality as Pvt. James Lanes, 24, assigned with the 92nd Infantry Battalion.
Retumban said forces from the 92nd IB were deployed to Sitio Madaraki, Barangay Umiray after the military received reports that an undetermined number of NPA rebels were extorting rice and money from indigenous people living in the area.
The soldiers exchanged gunfire with the rebels belonging to the NPA’s Platoon 4-A2 of the Guerilla Front Cesar of the Southern Tagalong Regional Party Committee for about 20 minutes.
Retumban said soldiers followed traces of blood during pursuit operations, leading to another firefight in the same sitio at around 11:45 a.m., also on Sunday. No one was reported killed.
https://www.malaya.com.ph/business-news/news/soldier-npa-killed-quezon-clash
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