TALAKAG, Bukidnon, Philippines — Two communist rebels and a soldier of the Army’s elite Special Forces Battalion were killed after a four-hour clash inside a military reservation in Barangay San Rafael, Talakag town, Bukidnon last Saturday, March 20. ADVERTISEMENTMagsayo said the soldier died upon arrival at a hospital in Cagayan de Oro City, some 59 kilometers from the encounter site. Meanwhile, Dimdim Arnado, a Higaonon villager in Talakag, identified one of the dead rebels as her cousin Paragas Saparo Hoyaman, 21, after viewing the body at a funeral parlor in Talakag town on Sunday. Kibaritan military reservation that straddles the towns of Kalilangan and Talakag in Bukidnon and Wao town in Lanao del Sur. ADVERTISEMENTBarangay San Rafael chair Puyat Sagayan said the fighting occurred when most of the village farmers were out on their field harvesting corn.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 21, 2021 22:41 UTC