From InterAksyon (Mar 30): 2 cops killed, 2 injured in Mt. Province clash on NPA anniversary
Two policemen were killed and two others wounded in an encounter with communist rebels in Bandong Hill in Barangay Dalican, Bontoc, Mt. Province on Saturday, the 45th anniversary of the New People’s Army.
Policemen from the Regional Public Safety Battalion and Company and soldiers of the 54th Infantry Battalion were conducting a tactical operation around 3:30 p.m. “in the vicinity of Bandong Hill to check on the reported camps there of the New People’s Army when fired upon by the rebels,” said Supt. Davy Vicente Limmong, spokesman of the Police Regional Office-Cordillera.
Police Officer 1 Jefferson Sari of the RPSB and PO1 Marcelo A. Kilasen of PPSC were killed in the ensuing encounter.
Wounded and taken to the Bontoc General Hospital were PO1 Romeo Fakat Jr. of PPSC and PO1 Benido Magan from the RPSB.
Security forces had said earlier the government was ready for possible attacks by the NPA either in relation to their March 29 anniversary—traditionally marked with high-profile attacks---or in retaliation for the March 22 arrest of Benito Tiamzon, alleged chairman of the CPP-NPA, and his wife Wilma Austria, the alleged secretary general, in Carcar, Cebu.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/83781/2-cops-killed-2-injured-in-mt--province-clash-on-npa-anniversary
Two policemen were killed and two others wounded in an encounter with communist rebels in Bandong Hill in Barangay Dalican, Bontoc, Mt. Province on Saturday, the 45th anniversary of the New People’s Army.
Policemen from the Regional Public Safety Battalion and Company and soldiers of the 54th Infantry Battalion were conducting a tactical operation around 3:30 p.m. “in the vicinity of Bandong Hill to check on the reported camps there of the New People’s Army when fired upon by the rebels,” said Supt. Davy Vicente Limmong, spokesman of the Police Regional Office-Cordillera.
Police Officer 1 Jefferson Sari of the RPSB and PO1 Marcelo A. Kilasen of PPSC were killed in the ensuing encounter.
Wounded and taken to the Bontoc General Hospital were PO1 Romeo Fakat Jr. of PPSC and PO1 Benido Magan from the RPSB.
Security forces had said earlier the government was ready for possible attacks by the NPA either in relation to their March 29 anniversary—traditionally marked with high-profile attacks---or in retaliation for the March 22 arrest of Benito Tiamzon, alleged chairman of the CPP-NPA, and his wife Wilma Austria, the alleged secretary general, in Carcar, Cebu.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/83781/2-cops-killed-2-injured-in-mt--province-clash-on-npa-anniversary