ZAMBOANGA CITY: The military on Sunday said communist rebels are holding at least a dozen civilians on a village in the southern Compostela Valley province where insurgents earlier released 26 people.

Capt. Alberto Caber, a spokesman for the Eastern Mindanao Command, said New People’s Army rebels were using the civilians as shield against pursuing soldiers in the village of Panamin in Mabini town.

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