ZAMBOANGA CITY: Two soldiers were killed and over a dozen others injured after an alleged communist group on Thursday ambushed a military convoy pursuing the New People’s Army (NPA) rebels who burned a truck of a pineapple company in Davao City.

Army Major Ezra Balagtey, spokesman for the Eastern Mindanao Command, said the ambush took place in a village near Lamaman in Calinan district. He added that troops returned fire and killed at least two NPA rebels in ensuing firefight.

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