MILITARY forces seized an encampment of the New People’s Army (NPA) on Thursday in Pilar, Abra resulting in an encounter that wounded a soldier, the military’s Northern Luzon Command (Nolcom) reported on Friday.

Lt. Col. Isagani Nato, Nolcom spokesman, said the encounter happened at about 12:45 p.m. in Barangay Gapang between the Philippine Army’s 24th Infantry Battalion and an unidentified platoon of the communist rebels in Pilar.

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