Skip to content
The Mindanao Examiner Regional Newspaper

The Mindanao Examiner Regional Newspaper

Title

Name

Primary Menu
  • Home
  • Mindanao
  • Visayas
  • National
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Business
  • International
  • SciTech
  • Health & Wellness
  • Sports
  • About Us
    • Regional Advertising Rates
    • Contact Us
    • Profile
  • Home
  • NPA claims victory in Cotabato

NPA claims victory in Cotabato

Editor January 26, 2013
NPA-reb1

COTABATO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Jan. 26, 2013) – Communist rebels on Saturday claimed responsibility on a series of attacks against government forces in the southern Philippines.

Rigoberto Sanchez, a spokesman for the New People’s Army, said rebel forces sustained its campaign against the military’s Eastern Mindanao Command.

He said rebels recently bombed a military convoy of the 57th Infantry Battalion in the village of Kisante in North Cotabato’s Makilala town, wounding 5 soldiers.

“The NPA’s ambush in Makilala was aimed at deterring troops who were on their way to its tactical command post in Alang-alang detachment where the AFP mounted two batteries of 105 howitzer that conducted shelling operations towards the village of Cabilao,” Sanchez said in a statement sent to the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.

He said the NPA used a command-detonated explosive in the ambush directed against the 57th Infantry Battalion which is protecting the Energy Development Company, formerly Philippine National Oil Company, in Kidapawan City and Dole Philippines banana plantation in North Cotabato.

He said another attack killed 4 government troops and wounded over a dozen soldiers belonging to the 28th Infantry Battalion in Lupon town.

There was no immediate statement from the Eastern Mindanao Command.

The NPA has been fighting for decades for the establishment of a Maoist state in the country. (Mindanao Examiner)

fb-share-icon
Tweet 20

Continue Reading

Previous: Put IP women in Bangsamoro Transition Commission, North Cotabato Rep. Nancy Catamco asks PNoy
Next: Photogra-peace: Sulu’s first photo workshop

Trending News

PH, Hong Kong start negotiations for Double Taxation Agreement BIR-Double-Taxation 1
  • Business

PH, Hong Kong start negotiations for Double Taxation Agreement

May 27, 2025
Unified 911 rollout to start in July 2025 911-DILG 2
  • National

Unified 911 rollout to start in July 2025

May 27, 2025
Preserving Lupah Sug: BARMM grants P1M to fund MSU-Sulu cultural research project BARMM-Cultural-Heritage 3
  • Mindanao Post

Preserving Lupah Sug: BARMM grants P1M to fund MSU-Sulu cultural research project

May 26, 2025
Contact lenses that let humans see near-infrared light developed contact-lens 4
  • Technology

Contact lenses that let humans see near-infrared light developed

May 26, 2025
Davao City to develop new tourism circuits Davao-tourism 5
  • Mindanao Post

Davao City to develop new tourism circuits

May 26, 2025
  • Facebook
  • X
  • YouTube
  • Blog
Copyright © 2025. The Mindanao Examiner Regional Newspaper. All Rights Reserved. | MoreNews by AF themes.