GOVERNMENT troops overran a New People’s Army (NPA) camp as they engaged the communist rebels in two separate encounters in Northern Samar over the weekend.

Capt. Amado Gutierrez, spokesperson of the Eight Infantry Division, said on Sunday that encounters between troops of the 20th Infantry Battalion and an undetermined number of NPA guerillas took place in the boundary of Barangay Toog in Lavazares town and in Barangay Guindalian in the municipality of Rosario.

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