NPA commander, 2 others killed in Antipolo raid
Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 04:26:25 +0000
By AARON RECUENCO
Joint police and military operatives killed a top official of the New People’s Army (NPA) operating in Southern Tagalog area in a raid on his safehouse in Antipolo City before dawn Thursday.
Maj. Gen. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos, commanding general of the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division, said that aside from Armando Lazarte, two other communist rebels were also killed.
Lazarte, according to Burgos, is the secretary of Southern Tagalog Regional Party Committee’s (STRPC) Sub-Regional Military Area 4A. He also served as the concurrently an Executive Committee member of STRPC.
“This is a decisive blow to the communist terrorists for it will result to leadership vacuum, thus, further pushing them on the brink of collapse thereby fast-tracking our efforts to defeat insurgency and liberate our people from the clutches of terrorism in this part of the country,” said Burgos.
The official said the operation started with
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