Skeletal Remains of NPA exhumed by Army's Katapatan troopers
47th Infantry (KATAPATAN) Battalion, Camp Gen Carreon, Brgy Libot,
Calinog, Iloilo - Acting on a report from a civilian asset and verified
through information disclosed by a former NPA rebel, elements of 47IB,
3ID, PA led by 1LT NAPOLEON P ALCARIOTO JR (INF) PA, the Battalion
Operations Officer together with personnel from 12th Infantry (CAFGU)
Battalion and PNP-Lambunao, Iloilo exhumed one (1) skeletal remains of
an alleged NPA member at Sitio Badiangan, Brgy Jayubo, Lambunao, Iloilo
yesterday, June 1, 2010 at around five o'clock in the afternoon in an
isolated and mountainous area of the said barangay approximately 20
kilometers away from the town proper.
Buried three (3) feet below the ground, the decomposed body was placed
inside a laminated sack and was wrapped with a textile bandage full of
dried blood. Discovered among the remains was a slug bullet of an M14
rifle which may have been the cause of death. The body was identified as
the remains of an NPA member who was killed in an encounter with the
troops of 47IB last March 26, 2007 at Brgy Sagcop, Lambunao, Iloilo
wherein the NPA suffered many casualties and have lost several firearms.
In his statement during a radio interview, 1LT REY B BALIBAGOSO (INF)
PA, the Acting Civil-Military Operations Officer of the 47th Infantry (Katapatan)
Battalion urged the public to help the Government forces in identifying
the body and appealed to the Communists Terrorists that pursuing armed
struggle will not promote a peaceful means to solve the problems of our
society.
The remains were brought to the PNP Station at Lambunao, Iloilo for
possible identification and was given appropriate blessing and prayers
by the Lambunao Parish Priest, Rev. Marvin Tabion.
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