CAFGU injured in gun battle

From the Visayan Daily Star (Feb 24, 2022): CAFGU injured in gun battle (By GILBERT P. BAYORAN)

A government militiaman was injured during a brief encounter with suspected New People’s Army rebels on February 22 in the upland village of Amaga in Brgy. Buenavista, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental.

Lt. Col. Angelo Guzman, 94th Infantry Battalion commander, disclosed that Army soldiers thwarted a rebel attack on residents of upland Madaja village in the barangay, following an encounter with 10 NPA rebels.

Guzman recalled that the village had been subjected to several attacks by the communist terrorist group after its residents stopped supporting the NPA and they stood up against the armed group.

In 2020, residents of Madaja village decided to move their homes closer, in order to form a cluster, for their security and safety from rebel threats, after the immersion program of the 94IB, he said.

Guzman said that the seven-minute gun battle prompted the rebels to withdraw.

On the other hand, the injured CAFGU member is now in stable condition, he added.

Guzman said that the presence of 94IB in the uplands of Negros aims to ensure peace and security in order to establish favorable conditions for government projects to come in.

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