SEVEN New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas were killed and 11 high-powered firearms were recovered after fierce fighting between soldiers and rebels on Tuesday in Camiling, Tarlac, the military said.
Capt. Mark Anthony Ruelos, public affairs chief of the Army’s 7th Infantry “Kaugnay” Division, said soldiers from the 3rd Mechanized Infantry Battalion encountered an undetermined number of rebels at around 8:45 p.m. in Sitio Bobon, Barangay Caarosipan.
The Army troops were supported by the National Police’s Provincial Public Safety Company (PPSC) of Tarlac City.
“The firefight broke out when the blocking force of 3Mech and PPSC sighted the withdrawing NPA from said barangay, which resulted in an undetermined number of casualties on the enemy side. No casualties were reported on the government side,” Ruelos said.
He said clearing operations yielded the bodies of seven rebels, including a female. An M-60 machine gun, an M-14 rifle, an M-653 carbines and three M-16 rifles were also recovered.
Col. Henry Sabarre, commander of the 703rd Infantry Brigade, said the soldiers were led by the 3Mech commander, Lt. Col. RJ Atencio.
The 73rd Division Reconnaissance Company (73DRC) provided an augmentation force.
“The armed group encountered by our troops operate in the tri-boundary of Tarlac, Pangasinan and Zambales,” Sabarre said.
“We have been conducting a series of combat operation in these areas for so long now, side by side by our peace and development teams. As a result, civilians in the area are the ones giving vital information on the presence of NPA’s in their locality, at the end of the day, these insurgents will have no more rooms to hide and eventually fall in the hands of our law,” he added.
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