500 Escalante City evacuees in Negros Occidental return home, says Army

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BACOLOD CITY, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, Philippines — Residents of Barangay Tamlang in Escalante City, Negros Occidental, who evacuated following an encounter between soldiers and New People’s Army guerrillas, returned home on Tuesday, June 2.

A total of 150 families, comprising 554 individuals, who had evacuated to the Tamlang Elementary School, decamped and returned home, 1st Lt. Fevie Fajardo, the 79th Infantry Battalion civil-military operations officer, said.

A 79th Infantry Battalion (IB) soldier was killed during the encounter with about five NPA rebels in Barangay Tamlang on Monday afternoon, Fajardo said.

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