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ENEMY LOSSES Maj. Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. holds an AK47 riflfle captured during running gunbattles against New People’s Army rebels in Bukidnon on Wednesday and Thursday. Other photo shows 16 seized fifirearms, medicines and personal belongings recovered during hot pursuit operations. PHOTOS BY CRIS DIAZ
ENEMY LOSSES Maj. Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. holds an AK47 riflfle captured during running gunbattles against New People’s Army rebels in Bukidnon on Wednesday and Thursday. Other photo shows 16 seized fifirearms, medicines and personal belongings recovered during hot pursuit operations. PHOTOS BY CRIS DIAZ


MARAMAG, Bukidnon: Five suspected New People's Army (NPA) rebels were killed in running gunbattles with government forces on Wednesday and Thursday in the hinterlands of Bukidnon province in southern Mindanao, according to the military.

Ten other communist rebels, including three minors, were captured during the two-day firefights, it said also on Thursday.

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