By Joel Guinto
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 04:17pm (Mla time) 01/23/2007
MANILA, Philippines -- Two communist rebels were killed while two government troopers were injured after they clashed in the northern province of Cagayan last Sunday, a spokesman for the Philippine Army said.
The firefight erupted at around 3 p.m., when patrolling troops from the 17th Infantry Battalion encountered a band of New People's Army (NPA) guerillas in the village of Carupian, Baggao town, said Major Ernesto Torres.
Torres identified the rebel fatalities as Edralyn Gudoy and Alvin Fuentes. Privates First Class Jomar Balcia and John Pagtud have been wounded.
Two other suspected rebels, identified as Rosemarie Tomas, 22, and a child soldier, 15-year-old Arlene Quintos, were captured, Torres said.
Another suspected NPA guerilla, identified as Rey Billones, was believed killed but authorities failed to recover his body,
Torres said.
The NPA is the 7,100-strong armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). It has been waging a 37-year guerilla campaign on the countryside.
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