The military says two of the seven NPA rebels killed in fierce clashes in Caraga and Northern Mindanao were former students of prominent schools in Iligan and Cagayan de Oro cities
BUTUAN CITY – The Army 29th Infantry (Matatag) Battalion (IB) and the City Task Force to End Local Armed Conflict (CTF-ELCAC)
facilitated the burial of two slain New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Sitio Dugyaman, Barangay Anticala, this city, on Wednesday, June 21.
Three suspected members of the New People's Army were killed by government troops in an encounter in Butuan City, according to the Armed Forces of the Philippines. According to a statement from the Eastern Mindanao Command (EastMInCom), the encounter took place in Mt. Apo-Apo, Sitio Dugyaman, Brgy. Anticala, Butuan City, on June 16. "The encounter resulted in the death of one male and two female CNTs (communist NPA Terrorists) whose true names.