ZAMBOANGA CITY: The Philippine military on Saturday announced the capture of three senior communist leaders in two separate operations in the restive southern region of Mindanao.

Major Ezra Balagtey, spokesman for the Army’s Eastern Mindanao Command, said the trio is still being interrogated following their capture on Friday afternoon in Davao del Sur and in Bukidnon provinces, both known lairs of the Maoist New People’s Army.

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