CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: Two suspected bomb experts of the New People’s Army (NPA) were captured after a brief firefight between government troops and five heavily armed rebels in a village in Bukidnon, an Army official said on Thursday.

Capt. Joe Patrick Martinez, spokesman for the 4th Infantry Division, identified the suspects as Ruel Cololot, who showed an identification card claiming to be a member of the militant Anak Pawis Partylist, and Ramil Cololot, a suspected member of the NPA, armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).

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