BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines – Joint police operatives in Tuguegarao City arrested on Friday a suspected communist rebel tagged in the ambush-slay of 10 soldiers, reports said yesterday.
Rene Abiva, 23, was charged with murder before a regional trial court in Lagawe, Ifugao.
The soldiers were on their way to the battalion headquarters in Kiangan town after a command turnover in Tinoc town last April 25, when the rebels attacked their three-vehicle convoy.