3 suspected rebels killed in Abra clash

BAGUIO CITY — Three suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels were killed on Tuesday in a clash with government troops at the Abra town of Licuan-Baay, the Philippine Army’s 5th Infantry Division said. The encounter, which was the fourth between government troops and suspected members of the NPA’s Ilocos-Cordillera Regional Committee (ICRC) in this Cordillera