ZAMBOANGA CITY ? Eight people, including five soldiers, were injured after suspected New People?s Army (NPA) rebels set off two improvised bombs along the Tagum-Mawab highway linking the provinces of Davao del Norte and Compostela Valley, military officials said Wednesday.
The wounded soldiers were identified as Private First Class (PFC) Lovie Joy Semillano, PFC Joseph Mendio, PFC Erwin Cordero, PFC Bai Johana Durado, and PFC Ryan Torena ? all members of the Army?s 66th Infantry Battalion (66th IB).
One of the three wounded civilians was identified as Gina Gubantes, a military dependent.
Army?s 66th IB commander Lieutenant Colonel Michael Logico said the troops, who were led by First Lieutenant Grace Joy Arado, were on the way to the market aboard a military truck that tripped an improvised bomb fashioned out as a landmine around 6 a.m. Tuesday along the Tagum-Mawab National Highway in the village of Magdum, Tagum City.
The explosion injured the five soldiers and Gubantes who were aboard the truck, Logico said.
Semillano and Mendio were admitted at the Tagum Doctors? Hospital for treatment, while the three others and Gubantes were discharged after medical treatment, Logico said.
He said another military stumbled on another improvised bomb, also fashioned out as a landmine, half-an-hour later in the village of Tagmanok, Mawab town, Compostela Valley province.
No one was either killed or wounded among the soldiers who were aboard the military, he said.
The troops were on the way to reinforce the troops led by Arado as well as conduct road clearing operation along the Tagum-Mawab National Highway, he said.
Logico said that two civilians, who were aboard a motorcycle following behind the military truck, were injured.
?One taxi and a motorcycle were on the rear of the military truck when the landmine exploded. The windshield and bumper of the taxi were damaged while the two riders of the motorcycle incurred slight wounds,? Logico said.
Logico has blamed the NPA rebels as the once behind the two bomb attacks on his personnel.
Colonel Angelito De Leon, commander of the Army?s 1001st Infantry Brigade, had condemned the acts of the NPA.
?These desperate acts of the NPA put innocent civilians in harm's way as they can no longer claim that they hit only military targets. This incident occurred in the National Highways were many travelers pass. Nadadamay pati inosenteng civilian,? De Leon said. (Sunnex)
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