ARMY TROOPS RECOVERED EXPLOSIVES IN ISABELA CLASH

STA. ISABEL, Jones, Isabela, October 18, 2012-­­Army troops belonging to the 51^st Division Reconnaissance Company  of the 5^th Infantry Division led by 2LT DALIT encountered more or less fifteen (15) communist terrorists while conducting security operations at sitio Kidogkidog, Sta Isabel, Jones, Isabela last Tuesday, October 16, 2012.

            The report disclosed that the firefight between the terrorists group who belong to the Sandatahang Platoon Propaganda (SPP) GANI under the leadership of Romeo Cudal, Aka Mon/Rito, and the operating troops lasted for about 30 minutes afterwhich the rebel group scampered towards different directions.

            Recovered by the operating troops at the encounter site were: five (5) backpacks containing three (3) claymore mines, medical kit, personal belongings and subversive documents with high intelligence value.

             The successful security operations conducted by the Army troops in the area pre-empted the violent activities to be inflected as a result of unnecessary loss of lives and properties of innocent civilians who are the primary victims of the communist terrorists.