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Monday, August 22, 2005
2 soldiers, rebel hurt in Tampakan clash
By Allen V. Estabillo
TWO soldiers and a suspected communist rebel were wounded in an encounter early Thursday last week in a hinterland village in Tampakan, South Cotabato, an Army official said.
Colonel Fidel Pumihic, commander of the Army's 27th Infantry Battalion, said the encounter ensued when at least 10 heavily armed New People's Army (NPA) rebels attacked an Army detachment in Sitio Talisay in Barangay Danlag, Tampakan around 2:30 a.m.
"Our troops were able to repulse the attackers and they also captured one NPA cadre," he told a local radio station.
He said the attack happened while some elements of the 27IB were stationed in the area for an immersion and dialogue with community leaders and residents.
The military did not release the names of the wounded soldiers, who reportedly only sustained minor shrapnel cuts and did not require treatment in a hospital.
The soldiers brought the captured rebel, who was wounded in the encounter, to the South Cotabato provincial hospital in Koronadal City, he said.
He did not name the captured rebel pending the conduct of a tactical interrogation.
Pumihic added that additional troops were sent to the area this morning to pursue the rebels who are reportedly under the command of a certain Kumander Bobong Fernandez of the NPA's Far South Mindanao Region.
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(August 22, 2005 issue)
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