BACOLOD CITY – Police have identified the three casualties believed to be New People’s Army (NPA) in a clash in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental over the weekend.
Capt. Judesses Catalogo, spokesperson of Negros Occidental police, said the first casualty that was identified was Jomarie Calumba, 4
AERIAL SURVEY. Col. Orlando Edralin (right), commander of the Philippine Army's 303rd Infantry Brigade, and Lt. Col. Van Donald Almonte, commanding officer of 94th Infantry Battalion, lead an aerial reconnaissance of the encounter sites in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental province onboard the Philippine Air Force Blackhawk aircraft on Tuesday (Feb. 7, 2023). A series of clashes took place in Barangay Oringao on Feb. 5 and 6 that resulted in the death of three New People's Army fighters.(Photo courtesy of 303rd Infantry Brigade, Philippine Army) BACOLOD CITY - The three Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) fighters slain during a clash in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental province on Feb. 5 were deceived to join the armed struggle which they eventually abandoned in their deaths, a Philippine Army official said on Wednesday. "They were deceptively recruited for the ideology they did not even understand. It paints the true color of the CPP-NPA
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Mayor Benjie Miranda (3rd from left) with Col. Orlando Edralin, 303rd Infantry Brigade commander, and Lt. Col. Van Donald Almonte,