An
undetermined number of NPA rebels swooped down on the detachment of the 730th Combat Group of the PAF 710th
Special Operations Wing in Barangay Calayo at around 3:30 p.m.,
said Superintendent
Chitadel Gaoiran, information officer of the Philippine National
Police in Calabarzon (Cavite ,
Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon).
Soldiers
manning the detachment fired back but in the exchange of gunfire, the NPA
rebels hit Staff Sergeant Armando Silvestre, 47. He sustained two gunshot
wounds that killed him on the spot, the report said.
The rebels
fled after the short firefight.
The
victim’s remains now lie at the Saint Peter Funeral Homes in Nasugbo.
The Armed
Forces Southern Luzon Command (Solcom) strongly condemned the attack.
Major
Angelo Guzman, Solcom spokesman, said all soldiers in Batangas province were on
standby for deployment to assist victims of Typhoon Nona.
“The attack also puts into question
their sincerity in unilateral ceasefire which they declared,” he said in a
statement.
Guzman said
police and Army soldiers have been deployed to track down the rebels.
The attack
happened three days before the start of the 12-day unilateral ceasefire
declared by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
On Dec. 14,
the CPP ordered the NPA, its military wing, to cease from carrying out
offensive operations against government troops from Dec.
23 to Jan. 3, 2016.
On Friday,
the government reciprocated the peace gesture and also declared its own 12-day
unilateral ceasefire, covering the same period, in observance of the Yuletide
season.
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