4 troops wounded in clash with suspected Reds in Quezon

From GMA News Online (Mar 8, 2019): 4 troops wounded in clash with suspected Reds in Quezon

Four soldiers were wounded following a clash with suspected New People's Army rebels in Quezon province Friday, a military report said.

In its report, the Army's 2nd Infantry Division said the incident happened at Sito Salok in Barangay Magsaysay in Infanta town at 8:07 a.m., as government security forces on strike operations encountered an undetermined number of rebels belonging to Platoon 1 of SRMA-4A.

Initial reports said the firefight lasted for 30 minutes.

Brigadier General Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos Jr., 202nd Infantry Brigade commander, said the encounter site was approximately three kilometers away from the area of the Northern Builders, the contractor of the Kaliwa Dam project whose equipment were burned by the insurgents last February 7.

The Kaliwa Dam is one of the Duterte administration's flagship and developmental projects in CALABARZON.

Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Diaz, 80th Infantry Battalion commander, said they conducted the operation after intelligence information revealed that "a group of NPAs will conduct atrocity in Infanta specifically the burning of construction equipment belonging to Northern Builders."

The wounded soldiers have been evacuated and are being given medical attention, Diaz said.

The military said they believe the group is part of the NPA unit which they also faced in Luisiana, Laguna back on February 14, where UPLB student John Carlo Alberto who was recruited by the communists as a fighter was killed.

Major General Rhoderick Parayno, commander of the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division, praised the residents of Infanta for voluntarily providing information to the security forces.

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