Philippines: Top communist rebel commander killed
31 October 2021 |
12:46 pm
Jorge "Ka Oris" Madlos, a top leader of the military wing of the Philippines' rebel communist party, has been killed during a gun battle with the army in a mountainous area of the island of Mindanao.
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