By: Rahel Banisil Udasan
TAGUM CITY, Philippines – On Monday, at least seven soldiers of AFP soldiers were wounded in a clash with a communist rebel troops in Southern Mindanao. The encounter occurred and the numbers of wounded soldiers are confirmed by both police and military official to the media.
TAGUM CITY, Philippines – On Monday, at least seven soldiers of AFP soldiers were wounded in a clash with a communist rebel troops in Southern Mindanao. The encounter occurred and the numbers of wounded soldiers are confirmed by both police and military official to the media.
From the statement of Senior Superintendent Abraham Rojas, Compostela Valley police chief offer, the New People’s Army rebels attacked the troops of the Army’s 46th and 25th Infantry Battalions in Laak town, Compostela Valley, around 7 p.m. using an improvised bombs and firearms.
Two of the soldiers from the 46th IB were wounded when they were ambushed by suspected NPA insurgents in Mabuhay village, while a unit of the 25th IB was hit by an improvised bomb in Ampawid village that injured five soldiers.
The wounded soldiers were brought to the nearest Compostela Valley provincial hospital in Laak for treatment, but one of them was later moved to Davao City’ Regional Hospital.
Earlier that day in Barangay (village) La Filipina in Tagum City, as the truck off of the 46th IP transporting construction materials and soldiers passed by, an improvised curb bomb went off spraying shrapnel that spoiled the vehicle’s windshield but no one was hurt, said Capt. Ernest Carolina, public information officer of the army’s 10th Infantry Division.
“All police stations of the 11 municipalities and police detachments were in high alert level for any possible diversionary (attacks) of the guilty party,” Rojas said of the Laak incidents.
