| Three policemen, a soldier and a civilian were killed while two civilians were abducted in scattered guerrilla attacks in the central and southern Philippines, official reports said Tuesday. New People’s Army (NPA) gunmen waylaid three traffic policemen on the outskirts of the southern city of Butuan late Monday as the officers responded to a call for help from residents being harassed by armed men. All three officers were shot dead as they approached the neighborhood. An army corporal was shot dead and six pro-government militia members were wounded in a firefight with another NPA unit near the central town of Tinambac in the Bicol region, it said. Meanwhile, Abu Sayyaf guerrillas killed a man and abducted his wife and son in the village of Buan in the Tawi-tawi island group in the extreme southern Philippines on Sunday. |