DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / June 26, 2013) – Communist rebels killed two government soldiers and wounded another in an attack in the town of Esperanza town in Agusan del Sur province in southern Philippines, a spokesman for the New People’s Army said Wednesday.
Omar Guevara said rebel forces killed the soldiers who were members of the 26th Infantry Battalion in the fighting that erupted in Maliwanag village.
He said the soldiers were resting in a thatched hut when the rebels attacked them. One soldier was also wounded in the clash, he said.
“This action happened while this platoon was resting in a hut. This was their unit undergoing a hot pursuit operation after the NPA successfully raided the compound of Shannalyne Plantation Company and a rubber plantation,” Guevara said.
A pro-government militia was also wounded in a separate attack by the NPA in San Luis town, also in Agusan del Sur.
”In these two events, the operating unit of NPA immediately withdrew without any casualty whatsoever,” Guevara said. “The NPA’s momentum will remain or rev up further in launching such assaults to these paid troops which are serving as defenders of foreign and local ruling classes.”
The NPA, armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, has been fighting for decades for the establishment of a separate Maoist state in the country. (Mindanao Examiner)
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