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Article: Guerrillas Kill 21 in Philippines; Toll in Ambush Is Year's Highest for Government Troops
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- The Washington Post
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- September 4, 1987
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Communist guerrillas taking advantage of the military disarray
left by last week's failed coup attempt ambushed a Philippine troop
convoy 50 miles east of Manila yesterday and took the year's highest
toll of government soldiers, killing 21 and wounding five.
Reports reaching Manila today said only two soldiers in the
column escaped injury when more than 200 guerrillas of the communist
New People's Army attacked in Quezon Province.
The guerrilla band reportedly blew up a bridge to cover its
retreat.
Meanwhile, in Cagayan Valley on northern Luzon island, six
soldiers and firefighters were killed when communist rebels overran a
municipal police station, news reports said.
The military ...