NPAs kill 5 Army troopers, wound 1 By Mario J. Mallari 08/25/2010

NPAs kill 5 Army troopers, wound 1

By Mario J. Mallari 08/25/2010 Five Army troopers were killed while another one was wounded after communist New People’s Army (NPA) rebels assaulted a military outpost in Agusan del Sur province early morning yesterday. The attack came as a baptism of fire to newly installed Army 4th Infantry Division (ID) chief Maj. Gen. Victor Felix who has jurisdiction over the NPA-infested Agusan del Sur. Quoting reports from the field, Felix said that more or less 30 fully-armed communist rebels from the Guerrilla Front-3 of the NPA’s Southern Mindanao Regional Party Committee started harassing the Army’s 26th Infantry Battalion’s (IB) security outpost in Barangay La Fortuna, Veruela town at around 1:45 a.m. Reports showed the NPA rebels managed to close in on the Army outpost, which is just 100 meters away from the main command post of the 26th IB.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100825hed5.html

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