22 Rangers hurt

BASILAN—Twenty-two Scout Rangers were wounded in a land mine explosion in Sumisip town here Tuesday.

Col. Ricardo Visaya, head of the Army’s 104th Brigade, said members of the 13th Scout Ranger Company were in patrol in Sitio Pansol in the village of Baiwas, when the land mine exploded.

Of the 22 wounded soldiers, seven are in critical condition, Visaya said. Julie S. Alipala, Inquirer Mindanao