GOVERNMENT security forces on Thursday prevailed in two separate encounters with the communist New People’s Army (NPA) inflicting an undetermined number of casualties on the rebel side and the capture of two others.

The first encounter took place on Thursday in the forested area of Barangay Siuton, Magallanes, Sorsogon between operating troops of the 31st Infantry Battalion and a group of rebels who were out to implement its permit-to-campaign/permit-to-win sche­me on some political candidates in that municipality.

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