Five anti-guerrilla paramilitaries of the Citizens Armed Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU) were killed on Friday September 1 in the locality of Mapulot (Tagkawayan, Quezon): the revolutionary guerrillas exploded an IED on the passage of their patrol before opening fire with automatic weaponry.
Three other paramilitaries as well as a soldier were injured in this ambush which is part of an offensive launched by the guerrilla warfare against the 85th infantry battalion of the Philippine army accused of abuses in the province of Quezon . This ambush comes less than two months after Quezon’s governor, Angelina Tan, and representatives of the army and the police declared the province “Rebel Free” …