Two more members of the New People's Army (NPA) were killed in a clash with government troops in Negros Occidental, Wednesday, November 30.
Troops of the Philippines Army's 94th and 47th Infantry Battalions (IB) found two bodies after engaging in 10 communist terrorists in Sitio Makilo, Barangay Camansi in Kabankalan City.
According to 94IB civil-military operations officer Captain Eduardo Rarugal Jr., the bodies have been brought to Sola Gracia Funeral Services in the southern Negros City.
Fatalities are not yet identified but the other one was confirmed by Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)-NPA's political wing, National Democratic Front-Negros, as Ericson Acosta, as consultant who was in Kabankalan for "consultation" with farmers in Southern Negros, accompanied by a peasant-organizer, the other fatality whom they did not name.
94IB said two clashes took place at 2:10 a.m. and 2:15 a.m. after joint troops responded to reports on the presence of NPA rebels asking for food supplies.
The report added that the rebels were believed to be among those involved in the series of armed encounters in Brgy. Cabalan of the neighboring Himamaylan City last month.
On Monday, two NPA rebels also died in clash with troops of the 62nd Infantry Battalion in Barangay Quintin Remo in Moises Padilla town in Negros Occidental.
Fatalities were identified as both part of the Sandatahang Yunit Pampropaganda Platoon Lenovo on the NPA's Central Negros Front 1.
