Gov’t troopers recover 3 IEDS after clash with NPA

From the Philippine News Agency (Apr 19): Gov’t troopers recover 3 IEDS after clash with NPA

CAMP ELIAS ANGELES, San Jose, Pili, Camarines Sur – Joint police and Army operatives conducting a security operation recovered three improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and about 40 meters of wire from New People’s Army rebels who they encountered at about 2:05 p.m. Sunday in Barangay Pinagsalog, Pilar,Sorsogon.

Capt. Mardjorie Paimela Panesa, public affairs officer of the 9th Infantry Division, Philippine Army, said the government troopers from the Philippine National Police and the 2nd Infantry Battalion led by 1Lt. Joel Pedregosa were on a security patrol when they chanced upon six NPA rebels.

The two groups engaged in a firefight that lasted only for two minutes as the communist dissidents withdrew towards an unknown direction, leaving behind the IEDs and the wire.

The government security forces are still in hot pursuit operation against the rebel group.

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