LUCENA CITY, Philippines – Government troops clashed with communist guerillas in Quezon province on Wednesday morning, leaving no casualties, a police official said.

A composite team from the Philippine Army’s 76th Infantry Battalion and police operatives encountered an undetermined number of New People’s Army (NPA) guerillas in Cawayan village, Lopez town at around 7 a.m., said Senior Superintendent Elmo Francis Sarona, officer-in-charge of the Quezon provincial police.

Troops are pursuing the rebels, Sarona said.