A MEMBER of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) was killed in an encounter with military and police forces on Wednesday night in Bulacan, the military’s Northern Luzon Command said on Thursday.

Lt. Col. Isagani Nato, Nolcom spokesman, said the communist rebel was only identified as alias Buddy, who was on the watchlist of the 2nd Quarter Periodic Status Report since 2015 and a former member of the NPA’s defunct Timog Sierra Madre platoon.

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