210 IP Families Flee Homes As NPAs Attack Village
Manila Bulletin|May 27, 2020
Camp Bancasi, Butuan City – About 210 families have fled their homes in the farming town of San Fernando in Bukidnon after an attack by the New People’s Army (NPA) on the village last Friday, May 22, according to the military.
Mike U. Crismundo
210 IP Families Flee Homes As NPAs Attack Village

Civil-Military Operations (CMO) Officer of 403rd Brigade Capt. Rene M. Belmonte, Jr. told The Manila Bulletin on Tuesday that field units of the 403rd Brigade were currently assisting the local government of San Fernando in distributing food packs to each of the families, which are being of temporarily sheltered at the town and barangay proper evacuation centers.

Food packs per family consisted of five kilos rice, can goods and other immediate needs of the highland villagers.

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