Article: Guerrillas Kill 21 in Philippines; Toll in Ambush Is Year's Highest for Government Troops

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 ...

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