GOVERNMENT forces have launched a pursuit operation against a group of armed men believed to members of the New People’s Army (NPA) who were behind in the ambush of a police patrol in a remote village in Surigao del Sur on Friday.

Reports reaching the PNP National Operation Center in Camp Crame said that SPO4 Jesus Labastilla was killed while PO2 Joy Turaja was wounded in the ambush that took place at about 9 a.m. on Friday in Purok-5, Poblacion in Cortes town.

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