wounded in an ambush staged by suspected communist rebels on Saturday
morning in the vicinity of Barangays (villages) Nabasan and San
Vicente Grande in Daraga town in Albay, a ranking Army official said.
Army Col. Arthur Ang commanding officer of the Army's 901 Infantry
Brigade based in Daraga, in a phone interview with Philippine News
Agency, identified the slain Army officer as Army 2Lt George Tiago, a
native of Davao and a member of the 2nd Infantry Battalion based in
Barangay Tula-tula, Ligao city.
Ang said they had already informed Tiago's relatives in Davao about
the death of the Army officer.
Ang said the government troopers, composed of 10 soldiers and a doctor
aboard an Army truck, were on their way to a medical mission in
Barangay Nabasan when ambushed by a 15-man New People's Army rebels at
about 9:20 a.m. Saturday.
Army troopers, led by Army Maj. Narzan Obuyes, together with a
civilian doctor, were headed to the villages when they were fired upon
by the rebels.
The soldiers were able to jumped out of the military truck and engaged
the attacking NPA rebel for a 15 minutes firefight that resulted in
the killing of the Army Lt. and wounding of Army PFC Genesis Broso.
The NPA rebels immediately fled towards neighboring villages there.
The wounded soldier was rushed to the Bicol Regional Training and
Teaching Hospital (BRTTH) for treatment , attending physician said the
wounded soldier is now in stable condition.
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