CAMP MELCHOR F. DELA CRUZ, Isabela: Five suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were killed in a gunbattle on Thursday morning in Lacub, Abra.

Initial reports said soldiers from the 41st Infantry Battalion (IB) were on patrol when they chanced upon the communist rebels.

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