PAGADIAN CITY – Communist rebels attacked patrolling
soldiers conducting anti-Covid (novel coronavirus) information drive in Zamboanga del Norte
province in southern Philippines, officials said Monday.
Officials said the attack sparked a firefight in the village
called Pange in Siayan town over the weekend. The clash lasted over half an
hour and stopped after rebels broke into smaller groups and fled.
No soldiers were wounded or killed in the fighting. It was unknown
whether the New People’s Army suffered casualties.
Soldiers also recovered improvised explosives and a blasting
cap, including a map showing locations of rebel targets in the town, left
behind by the gunmen, according to Lt. Col. Manaros Boransing, commander of the
97th Infantry Battalion.
Last month, rebel forces torched heavy equipment owned by
private contractor working on a road project in the village of Lower Liason in
Tambulig town in the neighboring province of Zamboanga del Sur.
Col. Leonel Nicolas, commander of the 102nd
Infantry Brigade, said there are at least 100 national and local government flagship
projects in Zamboanga Peninsula (region) and in Misamis Occidental which they
are now securing against the NPA.
Maj. Gen. Generoso Ponio, commander of the 1st
Infantry Division, said the rebel group violated their own unilateral ceasefire
and the attack just showed the treacherous action of the NPA. “Our troops will
continue to perform our mandate in mitigating the spread of the Covid-19 in
partnership with local government as we protect the constituents and ensure an
unhampered implementation of government flagship projects,” he said.
The NPA has been fighting the democratic government for many
decades now so it can put up its own communist state in the country. (Zamboanga
Post)
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