4 soldiers wounded in Bukidnon encounter

COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Four personnel of the Army’s 28th Infantry Battalion were wounded in an encounter with New People’s Army guerrillas in Barangay Hagpa in Impasug-ong, Bukidnon on Friday.

Maj. Gen. Michele Anayron Jr., Army 4th Infantry Division chief, said the soldiers are recuperating in a hospital.

Anayron assured the wounded soldiers of support for their medical needs.

Local executives and tribal leaders in Bukidnon told reporters that the rebels shot the soldiers who were dispatched to Hagpa to check on reports of armed men collecting money and rice from villagers at gunpoint.