ZAMBOANGA CITY: The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on Friday hailed four of its members, including a student leader, who were killed by soldiers in a clash in Maasim town in Sarangani province last week.

The rebel group confirmed the death of 23-year-old Rendell Ryan Cagula, a student at the University of the Philippines in Davao City and known in the New People’s Army (NPA) as Comrade Lucas, and three others identified only as Ka Payat, Ka Doming and Ka Jappie.

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