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AFP, PNP troops clash with NPA rebels in Davao
New People’s Army. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO
Captain Alberto Caber, Public Information Chief of the Eastern
Mindanao Command (Eastmincom), said the government troops from the 84th
Infantry Battalion (IB) and PNP Special Action Force (SAF) were in a
normal routine of monitoring Talomo Mountain in the upper portions of Barangays Baracatan and Catigan in Davao City when the encounter
happened.
“They were conducting security patrols, the PNP and the 84th IB in the area when the encounter happened,” Caber said.
He added that the AFP and the PNP regularly conduct the
operations to “protect the people in the area from harassment, extortion
and deception by the NPA.”
During the 30-minute firefight, five members of the SAF and one member from the 84th IB and were immediately treated.
Caber could not provide a ballpark figure on the wounded rebels who retreated after the firefight.
Eastmincom Commander Lieutenant General Rainier Cruz directed
all military unit commanders to continue their joint operations against
the armed communist rebels.
Caber said that the operation against the NPA was not related to the earlier reported Davao terror threat.
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