ONE soldier was killed and a rebel was captured after a firefight between government troops and the New People’s Army (NPA) on Monday in a remote village in Agusan del Norte province, police reports said on Tuesday.

Reports at the Philippine National Police National Operations Center in Camp Crame named the slain soldier as Pfc. Rey Pastrana, a member of the army’s 42nd Division Reconnaissance Coy of the 4th Infrantry Division.

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