Over 130 families flee after firefight between soldiers, rebels in Abra, Ilocos Sur border

BAGUIO CITY —

Meanwhile, Army Major Rigor Pamittan, spokesperson of the Philippine Army’s 5th Infantry Division, soldiers from the Philippine Army’s 50th Infantry Battalion stumbled into some 15 communist rebels from the Kilusang Larangang Gerilya-North Abra of the Ilocos Cordillera Regional Committee of the CPP-NPA at around 11:50 a.m. Tuesday at a mountainous location in barangay Nagcanasan, Pilar after a resident earlier tipped off about rebel movement in the village.

Pamittan said an aerial strike was conducted by Philippine Air Force assets later in the afternoon while confirming that Tuesday’s firefight was already the fifth skirmish between government troops and rebels this year in the province.

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