No civilian casualties in Sagada air strikes – PNP

MILITARY helicopters in support of the Philippine National Police (PNP) have launched aerial attacks against elements of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) in Sagada, Mount Province that resulted in the capture of the rebels’ camp.

However, an indigenous group reported on Tuesday that the attacks allegedly destroyed livelihood farms and ancestral hunting grounds even as Lt. Col. Ramon Zagala clarified that no civilians were hurt or injured from the two bombing sorties initiated by military helicopters on request of the local police.