Peasant couple Alber­to and Ma­ri­tess Du­rin were killed when CAFGU elements under the 20th IB indiscriminately strafed their house in Ba­ra­ngay Na­ta­wo, Pa­la­pag, Northern Sa­mar on July 26. Their grandchild, a minor, was also wounded during the incident. This is the second case of indiscriminate strafing by soldiers in Palapag since June.

Earlier, military agents reportedly killed No­noy Truza, a barangay councilor and chairperson of a local association of agrarian reform beneficiaries in Ba­ra­ngay Nag­bin­lod, Sta. Ca­ta­li­na, Neg­ros Ori­en­tal during the last week of June.