Toboso encounter
The Toboso encounter of April 19, 2026, also referred to as the Toboso killings, Toboso clash, the Toboso incident, or in some accounts, the Toboso massacre, was an armed confrontation between the 79th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (79IB PA) and the Northern Negros Front of the New People's Army (NPA NNF) in Barangay Salamanca, Toboso, Negros Occidental, which resulted in the death of ten members of the NPA and nine presumed civilians, who are collectively referred to as the "Toboso 19". The presumed civilians included University of the Philippines students Alyssa Alano and Maureen Keil Santuyo, poet and journalist RJ Nichole Ledesma of Paghimutad-Negros, community researcher Errol Wendel, and American activists Lyle Prijoles and Kai Dana-Rene Sorem.