CAMP BANCASI, Butuan City – More Army troops were deployed at the Mt. Balatucan Range in Misamis Oriental province to secure the Higaonon tribe there from the New People’s Army Terrorists (NPA), Maj. Regie H. Go, chief of Public Affairs Office (PAO) of the Army’s 4th Infantry (Diamond) Division (4th ID).
– More Army troops were deployed at the Mt. Balatucan Range in Misamis Oriental province to secure the Higaonon tribe there from the New People’s Army Terrorists , Maj. Regie H. Go, chief of Public Affairs Office of the Army’s 4th Infantry Division .The 4th ID PAO chief told The Manila Bulletin on Monday that Maj. Gen. Franco Nemesio M. Gacal, commanding general of the 4th ID also ordered Brig. Gen.
The mobilization of more combat troops there took place after a Higaonon Army soldier Cpl. Fermin Lindahay was killed-in-action in a fierce gunbattle with the NPAs in Mt. Balatucan Range on Friday . An initial report of 58th IB commander Lt.Col. Derilo said that they had earlier received complaints from IP communities on the presence of insurgents in their ancestral domain . “This prompted our unit to immediately respond,” he said.