Rebels raid police outpost

Tue, 12 Aug 1997 | Source: AFP

MANILA (AFP): Suspected communist guerrillas raided a police outpost in a suburb east of the Philippine capital, Manila, killing a policeman and abducting a militiaman, national police and press reports said here yesterday.

About 100 armed men, riding on two trucks, stormed the police detachment in Painaan district in the town of Antipolo on Sunday.

Police said they could not immediately identify the attackers although press reports said they were communist insurgents.

The country's communist insurgent movement has been waning in recent years with the number of armed guerrillas dropping to about 6,000 from a high of 24,000 in the mid-1980s.

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