By Ronron
December 7, 2007
Four government troopers were wounded in an ambush allegedly staged by the New People’s Army (NPA) on Friday afternoon in Laguna province, a police official said.
According to Sr. Supt. Charles Calima, chief of the Region IV-A Operations and Plan Division, the incident happened at around 2:15 pm in Sitio Kamagong. Barangay Cueva in Sta. Maria town of said province.
Calima said initial reports indicate that one squad of the Philippine Army’s 16th Infantry Battalion were aboard a M35 truck, plying the Marcos Highway, when attacked by more or less 30 communist rebels.
The incident left four soldiers injured and an undetermined others from the side of the NPA.
A pursuit operation was immediately conducted against the perpetrators by elements of the 16th IB, adjacent municipal police stations and the provincial police mobile group.
Calima said checkpoints were conducted in the neighboring towns of Sta. Maria, while all Army units in the province were alerted.
The 6,300-NPA has been waging guerilla warfare in the countryside in the last 38 years.
The Arroyo government vowed to crush the movement by the end of its term in 2010./DMS
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