By Jaime Sinapit, InterAksyon.com
MANILA, Philippines — Two elite Army soldiers were killed and three others wounded when New People’s Army guerrillas ambushed troops of the 12th Scout Ranger Company in Magpet town, North Cotabato Saturday morning.
It was the latest incident involving the communist NPA this week, which began with Monday’s raid on the police station of Matanao, Davao del Sur in which two policemen died and three others were wounded, quickly followed by the ambush of troops of the 39th Infantry Battalion joining pursuit operations against the raiders, which left seven soldiers dead and eight others injured.
Another soldier was killed later in the week in a clash with NPA fighters in Compostela Valley.
Lieutenant General Ricardo Rainier Cruz III, head of the Eastern Mindanao Command (Eastmincom), declined to give the names of the casualties in Saturday’s ambush, which happened around 9:57 a.m., saying their families had not yet been informed.
He said the ambush triggered a firefight that was continuing as of this posting.
“The NPA has, likewise, suffered undetermined casualties,” Cruz said.
(Photo caption: Fighters of the NPA Mt. Alip Command. InterAksyon.com file photo by Edwin Espejo)
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