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CAVITE – An armed man was wounded while his companion escaped during an encounter with a police officer in Bacoor City on Tuesday, June 23. A report from the Cavite Police Provincial Office (Cavite PPO) stated that a member of the Bacoor Component City Police Station (Bacoor CCPS) was on his way...

Two American nationals were allegedly among the 19 people killed in an armed encounter between the Philippine Army (PA) and New People’s Army (NPA) in Toboso, Negros Occidental last week, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) said on Saturday, April 25....

A suspected New People's Army (NPA) rebel, who was allegedly among a group of gunmen that killed a farmer, was shot dead by the military in a hot pursuit in Trinidad, Bohol on Saturday night, June 26. Lt. Col. Allyson Depayso, commander of the 47th Infantry Battalion (47IB), identified the slain...