The Philippine government on Wednesday cancelled the scheduled back-channel talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines-National Democratic Front (CPP-NDF) after the New People’s Army (NPA) ambushed a convoy of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) in Arakan town, North Cotabato on Wednesday.

Five PSG men were injured and a militiaman was killed in the ambush.

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