BILAR, Bohol —- Anita Jamili-Adlawn trembled in fear when she suddenly woke up to sounds of gunfire in Barangay Cabacnitan here early Tuesday.
Her children told Adlawn, 82, to flee to the Cabacnitan barangay hall, a kilometer away from their house.
“I was so terrified,” she told the Inquirer in an interview at Cabacnitan Barangay Hall where she and 52 other families were temporarily evacuated.
At least five suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were killed in an encounter with government troops on Tuesday.
1Lt. Elma Grace Remonde, spokesperson of the Civil-Military Operation Officer of the 47th Infantry (Katapatan) Battalion, said the soldiers were patrolling…
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