Authorities exhumed the body of a 19-year-old suspected Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army rebel from the public cemetery in Carranglan, Nueva Ecija, days after he was killed in an encounter with Army troopers in Dupax, Nueva Vizcaya.
Lt. Col. Joselito Kakilala, commander of the Philippine Army's 48th Infantry Battalion, said that the remains of Claro Fragata were claimed by his father, Alfredo, and the village head of Barangay Kita-kita, San JOse City on Tuesday.
Kakilala said Fragata alias Ka Nasa was among the 10 suspected NPA guerillas his troops encountered in Nueva Vizcaya on OCt. 13. Recovered from Ka Nasa was an M-16 Armalite rifle and a backpack (bag) full of sugar cane cut into pieces "which apparently serve as his meals in a week of running."
Information gathered by the military showed Ka Nasa joined the NPA movement when he was 17. His mother is an overseas Filipino worker in Hong Kong, Kakilala said.
The NPA has yet to issue statement regarding the claim.
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