BAGUIO CITY—A member of an armed group in Bucay town, Abra province, was wounded after engaging local policemen in a gunfight shortly after midnight on Monday, authorities said. A report from the Abra police provincial office said personnel of the Bucay Municipal Police Station and the 2nd Police Mobile Force Company were on mobile patrol when they chanced upon five armed men at Sitio Nagsangalan in Barangay Layugan at 12:35 a.m. A gun battle ensued that wounded Romnick Balmaceda, a member of the unnamed armed group and a resident of Barangay Calumbaya in Dolores town, also in Abra, the police said.

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