SEIZED WAR MATERIALS. Troopers from the Army's 30th Infantry Battalion seize high-powered firearms, ammunition, and an anti-personnel mine after an encounter with New People's Army (NPA) rebels on Tuesday (Feb. 8, 2022) in the hinterlands of Barangay Alipao, Alegria, Surigao del Norte. An NPA leader-cum-bomb expert, identified as alias "Wolf," was killed during the skirmish. (Photo courtesy of 30IB) BUTUAN CITY - A leader of the communist New People's Army (NPA) was killed in an encounter Tuesday in the vicinity of Barangay Alipao, Alegria, Surigao del Norte, according to the Army's 30th Infantry Battalion (IB). In a statement Wednesday, the 30IB identified the slain NPA leader as alias "Wolf," a bomb-making expert of the NPA Guerrilla Front 16 (GF-16) of the North Eastern Mindanao Regional Committee (NEMRC). "Alias Wolf is a resident of Kilometer 8, Barangay Bolhoon in Surigao del Sur. The unit is still determining his real identity," the