CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 01 Dec) - Communist insurgents killed four government soldiers in an ambush in the southern Philippines, where security forces were sent to hunt down New People's Army gunmen, a military report said on Friday.
Three soldiers were also wounded when the insurgents set off a roadside bomb just as an army convoy was passing a village near Marihatag town in Surigao del Sur province, it said.
The soldiers were on their way to join troops hunting the insurgents when gunmen detonated the bomb. The report, released to reporters, said the attackers carted an undetermined number of firearms from the soldiers.
"Pursuit ops (operations) is (going) on. Reinforcements are on their way," the military report said, referring to the government offensive against the NPA.
The NPA, armed wing of the outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front (CPP-NDF), is fighting the past three decades to topple the government and install a Maoist state in the country.
Peace negotiations between the government and communist rebels collapsed following the pullout of the National Democratic Front (NDF) from the talks due to its inclusion in the terror lists of the United States and the European Union.
Rebel leaders demanded that Manila asks the United States and the European Union to strike them off from the terror lists before they resume peace talks. (Mindanao Examiner)
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