LEGAZPI CITY, Albay — Police engaged a group of communist rebels in a firefight in Cataingan town in Masbate province after land mine explosions were reported there on Wednesday. Albert Abayon, acting police chief of Cataingan, said an undetermined number of suspected New People’s Army rebels could be wounded after government troops found bloodstains in the clash site. It’s possible that there were wounded rebels,” he said. He said government forces engaged about 60 rebels in a firefight, some 750 meters away from the site of the first explosion. Calubaquib, in a report, said members of the 4th Maneuver Platoon of the police’s public safety company also responded to the bombing but another explosion met the team along the national road in Barangay Busay.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 12, 2017 13:07 UTC