Soldier hurt in Ilocos NPA raid

STA. CRUZ, Ilocos Sur -- A soldier was wounded when suspected New People’s Army rebels raided an Army camp here in Barangay Bugbuga August 10. 

First Lt. Rey Anfone, civil-military operations officer of the 81st Infantry Battalion, was hit by shrapnel when the rebels reportedly fired a rocket-propelled grenade that destroyed the guard house.

The communist guerillas immediately fled after the raid. Army troops are now scouring nearby areas for the rebels and have set up checkpoints in strategic areas of known rebel lairs.