MABALACAT CITY, Pampanga—A suspected official and a member of the New People’s Army (NPA) died in an alleged armed encounter last week with police and military personnel in Barangay San Juan De Mata in Tarlac City.
In a statement released Sunday (July 18), the Tarlac Police Provincial Office identified the alleged rebels as Neptali Santos, alias “Ka Mac/Ka Atong,” and a certain “Sandy Snu.”
Police tagged Santos as a member of the NPA’s executive committee in Central Luzon and former secretary of the group’s Tarlac-Zambales platoon.
The provincial police said its personnel, along with government soldiers, were trying to serve two warrants of arrest issued by a court in 2006 for…
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