The Armed Forces of the Philippines said they rather conduct pursuit operations to rescue the soldiers abducted Monday in Davao City than talk the communist rebels into releasing the captives.
Communist insurgents killed five civilians and kidnapped five soldiers in the southern Philippines on Tuesday in the latest of a series of violent acts following the collapse of peace talks, authorities said.
A suspected rebel was killed in an early morning encounter between government troops and the New People’s Army in Monkayo, Compostela Valley on Monday.
A New People’s Army rebel was captured and a civilian was wounded in an encounter between the guerrillas and the military in Quezon on Sunday, the Southern Luzon Command said Monday.
The government is bringing the stalled peace talks with communist rebels, through the National Democratic Front, back to the public.
Two militiamen abducted by the New People’s Army have been released in Surigao del Sur, the military said.
At least six soldiers, two of them women, were hurt Tuesday morning by a landmine explosion on the Davao-Agusan highway here, an official said.
Three government troopers were slain while another was wounded when they were hit by shrapnel from a landmine blast set by suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Barangay (village) Maninila, an upland village in Camalig, Albay, Monday morning, an Army official said.
A leader of communist rebels operating in Central Luzon has admitted responsibility for the murder of a mayoral candidate in San Jose town in Tarlac last week.
The Communist Party of the Philippines ordered its armed wing, the New People’s Army, to “strike at” Philippine military units allegedly “engaging in intimidation against the people.”
The New People’s Army (NPA) are allegedly holding seven policemen escorting four barangay (village) captains who they claimed were out to
buy votes for a congressional candidate in the village of Paquibato, a spokesman for the rebels said Monday.
Three Marines were wounded during a firefight with communist rebels in Gingoog City Saturday morning, a military official said.
The National Democratic Front (NDF)-Southern Mindanao said Arakan Valley town policeman Police Officer 3 Maula Ali will be freed today (Wednesday) in an undisclosed area in the province.
