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Student claims Booc was an NPA leader

A FORMER student of Chad Booc claimed that the volunteer community school teacher was a New People's Army (NPA) leader and recruiter who lured children to become rebel warriors.

Rurelyn Bay-ao, a former student of Booc in Salungpungan and Bakwit schools, said during the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) virtual press briefing that the slain teacher was also a leader in the Communist Party of the Philippines - New People's Army - National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF).