MANILA, Philippines -- Three New People's Army guerrillas were killed in a clash
with government troops in San Francisco, Quezon Thursday noon, an Army spokesman said.
with government troops in San Francisco, Quezon Thursday noon, an Army spokesman said.
Col. Generoso Bolina, spokesman of the Southern Luzon Command, said a squad from the 74th Infantry Battalion clashed with six rebels under a certain Ka Jun in Barangay Butanguiad.
He said the troops were responding to a call for help from residents
who said the rebels were allegedly threatening personnel of the
Department of Agrarian Reform’s Quezon provincial office to prevent them
from conducting a dialogue with farmers.
The soldiers also seized two M16 rifles, a caliber .38 revolver, a hand grenade and a Claymore mine.
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