ZAMBOANGA CITY: Joint military and police intelligence agents on Wednesday arrested a key leader of the New People’s Army (NPA) and his girlfriend while onvacation in Davao City, a known strongholdof the communist rebel group fighting for a separate state in the country.

Army Capt. Alberto Caber, a spokesman for the Eastern Mindanao Command, said a composite team of intelligence operatives nabbed Roy Erecre, the secretary-general of the NPA in central Philippines, and his girlfriend Judith Niog.

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