GOVERNMENT security forces engaged some 15 members of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) in an hour-long fierce gunfight in a hinterland village in Surigao del Norte.

First Lt. Stephen Basco, civil military officer, 30th Infantry Battalion (IB), Fourth Infantry Division, said on Monday the incident took place in Sitio Boybanwa, Barangay Camam-onan in Gigaquit town.

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