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NPA Base Seized In Search For Abducted Soldiers

June 29 2010

Philippines

Philippine troops seized a New People's Army (NPA) rebel camp in Cateel, in Davao Oriental province in Mindanao in a search for abducted servicemen, reports the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Personnel from the 25th Infantry Battalion were searching for two soldiers who were abducted by the communist guerrillas in nearby Monkaya when they discovered the NPA encampment.

There was a 30-minute gunfight on Sunday with around 50 rebels. Two communists were killed and several others...

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