Communist guerrillas killed 13 soldiers in an ambush and nine other people died in separate weekend incidents, the military said Monday.
Some 150 communist New People's Army guerrillas Sunday ambushed a truck ferrying soldiers and engineers to San Francisco village in Quezon province, 150 miles southeast of Manila.Military spokesman Col. Juan Mamorno said 13 troopers were killed and an army lieutenant was wounded in the attack. The soldiers had been en route to build roads and bridges in one of the most depressed areas in the Philippines.
On the island of Negros, suspected guerrillas ambushed a minibus, killing two militiamen and five civilians, including two women. And in Iligan city on the southern island of Mindanao, rebels killed a civilian, an army sergeant and a militiaman in separate attacks.