BACOLOD CITY: Sixty families were evacuated in a northeastern city of Negros Occidental early Saturday morning as military troops and suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels clashed, leaving three soldiers injured.

Capt. Rowell Dairocas, Civil Military Operations officer of the 79th Infantry Battalion (IB), said the evacuees came from Sitio Morino, Barangay Paitan, Escalante City in Negros Occidental.

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