MANILA, Philippines—Two militiamen were wounded in separate encounters with government troops in Davao City Thursday, a military spokesman said Friday.
In a statement, Colonel Lyndon Paniza, spokesman of the Army’s 10th Infantry Divison, identified the wounded militiamen as Loreto Lireta, who suffered a splinter wound in the left side of his chest and hand, and Anthony Camansi, who sustained injuries to his right hand.
Paniza said the encounters happened after an undetermined number of New People’s Army rebels attacked detachments in the sub-villages of Golden Shower and Cabonbon both in Barangay Malabog, Paquibato District, Davao City shortly after midnight of Thursday.
The clashes were the first in Paquibato for this year.
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