About 530 residents were evacuated after government troops clashed with suspected communist rebels in southern Negros Occidental. | carlapgomezINQ /PDI
BACOLOD CITY—About 530 residents were evacuated Wednesday after government troops clashed with suspected communist rebels in southern Negros Occidental.
Soldiers from the 15th Infantry Battalion encountered at about 11 a.m. five New People’s Army rebels in Barangay Camalanda, Cauayan town, 129 kilometers from this capital city.The soldiers pursued the rebels, and another shootout occurred about 5 p.m. in the same barangay, said Brigadier General Leonardo Peña, 302nd Infantry Brigade commander.
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