Friday, April 28, 2006
2 rebels, militiaman slain in army base attack
By Neil C. Rio
CAMP FERNANDEZ, Agan-an, Sibulan -- Government troop reinforcements rushed Sunday to Barangay Villegas in Guihulngan following a New People's Army (NPA) attack of a military detachment late Saturday afternoon that left two communist rebels and a militiaman dead.
The Guihulngan police and the 12th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army based in Camp Mckinley, Guihulngan identified the slain communist rebels as Demetrio Cornelio, of Sitio Maluy-a, Barangay Sandayao, and Ruben Rabor, of Sitio Tagbakon, Barangay Humay-Humay, both in Guihulngan.
Killed on the government side was civilian armed auxiliary Reniel Garces.
The report said the estimated 30-man rebel band belonged to the Larangan Gerilya 1 of the Komiting Rehiyonal Negros of the NPA operating in northern Negros.
The rebels struck the detachment, manned by an unknown number of soldiers and 12 armed militiamen under the command of Private First Class Reynante Sambrana, 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
The rebels withdrew after a 45-minute fight leaving their two slain comrades.
Two other rebels, believed to have been wounded in the exchange, were carried away by the retreating band.
Recovered from the bodies of the slain rebels were a communist flag, personal items, an upper M16 receiver, a hand grenade, a rifle grenade, a 91-round M203 magazine, a cellphone charger, two backpacks, an M16 magazine, empty shells, caliber .45, 5.56, and 7.62 bullets, and steamed rice wrapped in coconut leaves.
The report said police and military forces have started checking clinics and hospitals in neighboring towns and cities where the rebels could have brought their wounded colleagues for treatment.
(April 27, 2006 issue)
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