Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Rebels raid military outpost in Quezon
By Miko Santos
SUSPECTED New People's Army (NPA) guerrillas attacked a military outpost in Santa Filomena, Quezon, early Monday, reports reaching Camp Crame said.
Two soldiers were killed and four others were injured in the incident, said the report.
Fifty suspected rebels reportedly swooped down on the outpost at 7:30 a.m. Government security forces later repelled them.
Authorities recovered two high-powered firearms after the incident.
Meanwhile, members of the New People's Army (NPA) allegedly executed a soldier captured by the communist rebels on Tuesday last week, NPA spokesman Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal said in an interview over radio station dzMM Monday.
Rosal said that Sgt. Juanito Tandoc, a Philippine Army special operations soldier, was "captured and punished" by the leader of the NPA command that abducted him.
"There are no details, but if they punished him, it is mostly likely through firing squad," he said.
The NPA guerrillas seized Tandoc last week while he was on his way to 22nd Infantry Battalion headquarters in Guinobatan, Albay.
(November 25, 2003 issue)
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