DAVAO CITY – At least 5 communist rebels were killed and two army soldiers wounded in a clash in Bukidnon province in southern Philippines, officials said on Wednesday.
Captain Alberto Caber, a spokesman for the Eastern Mindanao Command, said the fighting broke out in the village of Mendiz in Pangantucan town on Tuesday afternoon. He said troops also recovered an assault rifle and 19 backpacks left behind by New People’s Army rebels.
“At least five NPA members of the North Central Mindanao Regional Committee were killed while two soldiers, of the 3rd Special Forces Company, were also wounded in the fighting,” Caber told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.
He said the fighting erupted after rebels attacked patrolling soldiers in the village.
“The wounded soldiers were immediately brought to a medical facility for treatment. The troops are still on their pursuit operations in the area,” Caber said.
He did not say if soldiers were able to retrieve the bodies of the slain rebels, but his report of alleged enemy casualties was largely attributed to unidentified civilians in the area and could be part of propaganda.
The NPA has been fighting the democratic government for many decades now in an effort to install a communist state in the country. (Mindanao Examiner)
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