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 ==[[Catanduanes News]]==
-'''Communist rebel killed in Catanduanes clash'''
+'''Suspected NPA leader captured in Catanduanes'''
-*Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/147393/communist-rebel-killed-in-catanduanes-clash
+*Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/148209/suspected-npa-leader-captured-in-catanduanes
-*By: Frances Mangosing
+*By: Mar S. Arguelles
-*''February 17, 2012''
+*''February 18, 2012''
-A communist rebel was killed while another was arrested after a clash with soldiers in Catanduanes Friday, a military spokesman said.
+Government troops captured a suspected leader of the New People’s Army in Catanduanes in an encounter Friday morning, an Army commander in the Bicol region said Saturday.
-Major Harold Cabunoc said troops from the Philippine Army’s 83rd Infantry Battalion led by Lieutenant Colonel Rodolfo Batang encountered an undetermined number of guerrillas in Barangay Sioron, Gigmoto town at around 9:30 a.m.
+Colonel Arthur Ang, commander of the 901st Infantry Brigade, identified the alleged NPA  leader in a telephone interview as Lorenzo Jimenez “alias” Enzo, 33, a native of Gigmoto who was believed operating in the eastern side of Catanduanes. Friday’s encounter occurred on the outskirts of Gigmoto.
-“We acted on the report by concerned residents that heavily armed rebels were extorting money in the area,” said Batang.
+Ang said that at around 9:30 a.m. Friday, Jimenez and five other NPA rebels were cornered after a five-minute firefight with troops from the 83rd Infantry Battalion in Barangay Sioron, six kilometers away from Gigmoto  and 52 kms  from Virac, the provincial capital.
-The rebels fled after the clash that lasted five minutes, added Cabunoc.
+Captain Edmar Gambot, leader of the government troops, said in his report that the captured rebel had raised his hands in surrender. “I instructed my combat medics to check for wounds upon his capture,” said Gambot.
-The soldiers were able to confiscate an M16 rifle and uzi sub machine gun from the rebels.
+Troops seized an Uzi sub-machinegun from Jimenez while an M16 armalite rifle was recovered during clearing operations.
-No one was hurt among the troops, he said.
+Ang directed pursuit of the five fleeing rebels and turned Jimenez over to the Gigmoto Municipal Police Office.
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