[BenarNews] Philippine communist guerrillas confirmed on Sunday that their top commander in the southern Mindanao region and a fellow rebel were killed in a counter-insurgency operation by government forces the day before.
| Most of the NPA rebels killed during clashes with government troops or who were captured since October were infected with the coronavirus or showed symptoms, Barandon said. |
Earlier on Sunday, military officials showed news hounds a photograph of the dead body of a man they claimed was Jorge Madlos (also known as Ka Oris), the country’s most wanted New People’s Army (NPA)
...armed wing of the Maoists in the Philippines since 1969... guerrilla leader, who they said was killed in a clash with an army unit in Bukidnon province on Saturday.
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