Two Army soldiers were wounded in a 10-minute firefight when
a joint military and police pursuit operation encountered the communist New
People’s Army (NPA) in Bukidnon, Army reports reaching here Thursday said.
Capt. Norman Tagros, the spokesperson of the army 8th
Infantry Battalion (8IB), said that the encounter took place last Tuesday in a
the village of Manalog in Malaybalay City, two days after the NPA captured two
police officers in Impasug-ong, Bukidnon last Sunday.
He said that the government troopers stepped on an
improvised explosive device while pursuing the retreating NPA rebels, where the
two soldiers got wounded.
Tagros did not name the soldiers who were reportedly brought
to a military hospital in Cagayan De Oro City.
The police and the military pushed through the dense jungle
along the boundaries of Malaybalay
City
Tagros said that the NPA rebels abducted SPO1 Warren Coñales
and PO3 Edwin Castor at gunpoint in a checkpoint set up by the rebels in
Impasug-ong Sunday morning.
Last Monday, the military deployed an elite K-9 team to
track down the rebels in the mountains of Bukidnon.
The encounter was the first since the military deployed an
elite K-9 team to track down the rebels in the mountains of Bukidnon in a bid
to rescue the kidnapped police officers, Tagros said.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=874246
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