The house where a tribal leader and two others were allegedly killed by Army troops in Paquibato District Saturday midnight hosted a birthday party, said a human rights group.
A soldier and three other Army men fell as casualties in a recent attack of the New People's Army in Bukidnon on Sunday afternoon.
The military on Sunday announced they killed three members of the New People's Army in Paquibato District here, but human rights group Karapatan condemned the killing as a "massacre" of three civilian tribal leader, village (purok) leader, and a resident, as well as an attempted murder of a woman farmer leader.
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said the closure of the indigenous peoples schools in Davao del Norte province is a "stupid idea".
School children, particularly the boys were lining up a barber shop, arranged from the shortest to the tallest, each waiting for their turn for a haircut.