The young lieutenant, commanding officer of the Charlie Company in the Army’s 46th Infantry Battalion, was killed in the clashes with the New People’s Army in the rebel-infested Sitio Sapang Tin-aw, Pantukan, Compostela Valley on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 3. He was only 28 years old.
Pantonial and his men tussled with about 60 communist rebels for about 30 minutes. A bomb set off by the communist rebels killed him and his other comrade Private First Class Eulezys Bantulo. Two others identified only as PFC Sabido and Corporal Velunta were injured, said Captain Rhyan Batchar of the Army’s 10th Infantry Division.
Source: Inquirer.net