Parents claim bodies of NPA rebels killed in Bukidnon

From the Philippine News Agency (May 12): Parents claim bodies of NPA rebels killed in Bukidnon

The bodies of two unidentified New People’s Army (NPA) rebels who were killed in a firefight in Bukidnon were claimed Monday by their parents, the military said Tuesday.

Police investigators identified the slain communist NPA rebels as Jubane Saguinlao a.k.a. “Karel” and “Jinggoy” Colao, all of Balingasag, Misamis Oriental.

The mother claimed the body of Saguinlao while the father took the body of Colao, after presenting papers, in the municipal town hall of Libona, Bukidnon, Monday, the police said.

The military brought the bodies of the unidentified rebels to the municipal town of Libona in Bukidnon last Sunday for proper identification by relatives or friends, the police said.

The parents went to Libona after the police reported about the unidentified bodies of the NPA rebels at the municipal town hall.

Col. Jessie Alvarez, commanding officer of the Malaybalay based 403rd army brigade, said that the government troopers killed the rebels in a firefight in the mountains of Kitanglad in Bukidnon last Friday morning.

Alvarez said that the government troopers overran the rebel camp in Kitanglad during a surprise raid after residents in the farming village of Sil-ipon reported the presence of an armed group in the area.

He said that aside from recovering the bodies of the two rebels in the camp site, the government troopers also recovered several loaded magazines of assault rifles, hundreds of bullets, personal belongings and subversive documents of high intelligence value.

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