CABANATUAN CITY: Three more suspected New People’s Army guerrillas under a certain Ka Rasul were killed in a daytime encounter with military forces. Five rifles were recovered in the firefight, which happened in Sitio Lomboy, Barangay Tayabo, San Jose City, about 7 a.m. on Tuesday. Lt. Col. Joselito Kaki­lala, commander of the Army’s 48th Infantry Battalion, said that about 40 fully armed rebels figured in the encounter with the soldiers led by 2nd Lt. Jover Tutanes.

The victims were identified as Aries del Prado alias Bosyong or Ken from Villa Marina, San Jose City; a certain Henry from Quezon, Nueva Ecija; and Mar from Mangaldan, Pangasinan.

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