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Commission on Human Rights (PNA) LEGAZPI CITY - The Commission on Human Rights in Bicol (CHR-5) Wednesday condemned the latest attack by suspected members of the New People's Army against government troops doing a rescue mission in Albay recently. Lawyer Arlene Alangco, CHR Bicol regional director, said the assault against two soldiers of the Philippine Army's 31st Infantry Battalion last Monday in barangay Cotmon, Camalig town, was also an attack on the country's peace and stability...

(Infographic courtesy of 9ID, Philippine Army) LEGAZPI CITY - Two soldiers of the Philippine Army's 31st Infantry Battalion died in an ambush perpetrated by suspected communist-terrorist group (CTG) members while buying supplies for a search and rescue mission in Albay province on Monday. In a report on Tuesday, Capt. Frank Roldan, 9th Infantry Division Public Affairs Office (DPAO) chief, identified the fatalities as Private John Paul C. Adalim and Private Mark June D. Esico who suffered sev...