ZAMBOANGA CITY: Communist rebels arrested a Philippine Army soldier in Compostela Valley on Friday and declared him a prisoner of war, a New People’s Army spokesperson said.

Aris Francisco announced over the weekend the capture of Sgt. Jeric Bucio Curay, a member of the 72nd Infantry Battalion, in Laak town on April 4.

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