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4 communist rebels killed in Surigao

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May 10, 2005 | 12:00am
ZAMBOANGA CITY — Army scout rangers killed four communist rebels in a surprise attack and overrun a cave used as war manufacturing hideout on Sunday in the remote village of San Aguatin, Surigao del Sur.

Maj. Gen. Samuel Bagasin, 4th Infantry Division chief, said the scout rangers also recovered a truckload of assorted explosives and devices for bomb making and paraphernalia following the encounter.

The scout rangers where on combat patrol when they chanced upon members of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Barangay Andap Valley, a known communist lair. — Roel Pareño, Jaime Laude

BARANGAY ANDAP VALLEY

INFANTRY DIVISION

JAIME LAUDE

MAJ

NEW PEOPLE

RANGERS

ROEL PARE

SAMUEL BAGASIN

SAN AGUATIN

SCOUT

SURIGAO
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