The fierce encounter is reminiscent of a week-long fighting in October 2022 that started in the same village, subsequently spreading to adjacent villages and displacing some 3,000 families.
NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, Philippines – Many villagers evacuated to safer grounds following fierce clashes between government troops and a group of New People’s Army rebels in Carabalan, Himamaylan City, on Friday morning, July 7.Barangay Carabalan officials said they have counted about 100 people, roughly 30 families, who fled their homes and schools when soldiers and a group of about 10 communist rebels began fighting at around 7:30 am in Sitio Pangi, Barangay Carabalan.
The 2022 clashes in Barangay Carabalan, which has a population of nearly 13,000, resulted in the deaths of two soldiers and rebel leader Romeo Nanta, also known as Juanito Magbanua, commanding officer of the NPA Apolinario Gatmaitan Command and spokesperson for the Communist Party of the Philippines’ Negros-Cebu-Bohol-Siquijor regional party committee. –
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