TACLOBAN CITY: Six soldiers were injured when New People's Army (NPA) rebels detonated an anti-personnel mine in upland Quirino village in Las Navas, Northern Samar on Sunday.

Lt. Col. Joemar Buban, commander of the Philippine Army's 20th Infantry Battalion, on Monday, said the troopers were wounded while securing a water system project of the national government's Support to Barangay Development Program (SBDP).

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