NPA reb killed in Tarlac clash
>> Monday, January 25, 2010
SAN CLEMENTE, Tarlac – A suspected New People’s Army rebel was killed in a clash with government troops afternoon of Jan. 16 in Tarlac, police reported.
Reports reaching the office of Chief Supt. Leon Nilo A. Dela Cruz in Camp Olivas, Pampanga said the firefight between an estimated 30 heavily armed NPA rebels and elements of Army’s 3rd Mechanized Infantry Battalion occurred in Sitio Bunga in Barangay Maasin in San Clemente town.
Dela Cruz identified the casualties as Ka Razel Laborete, who was also known as “Ka Paeng” and “Ka Joey,” in the armed communist movement in Central Luzon.
Army intelligence disclosed that Laborete is also a Muslim from Mayantoc, Tarlac.—George Trillo
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