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| Southeast Asia |
| NPA attacks in Philippines kill 12 |
| 2014-03-11 |
| [The Peninsula] Ten members of the security forces and two communist snuffies were killed in a string of guerrilla attacks targeting Philippine police and military yesterday. At least 50 New People's Army (NPA) rebels overwhelmed a small group of coppers at the cop shoppe in Matanao on the southern island of Mindanao at dawn, said local military front man Captain William Rodriguez. "They fell on the town riding trucks and a small bus, about 50 of them... thirty minutes later (other) rebels also attacked a (local military) detachment but they were not successful there," he told news hounds. A photographer saw bloodstains on the floor in front of the cop shoppe, while ripped pieces of paper lay scattered on the hallway. Two coppers were killed and three others maimed in the raid on the cop shoppe itself, while the two of the raiders, who were wearing military uniforms, also died, Rodriguez said. One of the three maimed coppers later died in hospital. Seven soldiers died and another seven were maimed about five hours later when their vehicle triggered a roadside kaboom as they pursued the retreating rebels. The photographer saw a disabled camouflage-hued military truck sitting in the middle of the road amid civilian vehicle traffic in the afternoon, hours after the kaboom. The truck's windshield and hood were riddled with bullet holes. Rodriguez said the rebels stole 10 firearms from the police armoury in Matanao, a hilly farming town of about 52,000 people located about 1,000km south of Manila. |
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