DARAGA, Albay -- Suspected New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas waylaid on Tuesday morning soldiers transporting the body of a comrade slain in an earlier ambush in Catanduanes back to his family in Bulan, Sorsogon. 901st Infantry Brigade commander, Colonel Ariel Bernardo said in an interview that the rebel group have blocked the Bulan-Matnog road using logs while another group have blocked the road in Irosin Sorsogon to ambush the unsuspecting group of soldiers who were taking the body of Private First Class Gilbert Sembrano home.No casualties were reported except for a soldier who suffered gashes on his face, though not from the gunfire, Bernardo said.The road was made passable early this afternoon after the clearing operations by the deployed Army scout rangers who had used chainsaws to clear the logs. Sembrano was killed on Sunday when communist guerillas attacked troops on a dental and medical mission in Pandan, Catanduanes.
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