ZAMBOANGA CITY: Communist rebels on Sunday said that they were holding two soldiers in North Cotabato province where security forces are battling the New People’s Army (NPA).

Isabel Santiago, a spokesman for the NPA’s Herminio Alfonso Command, said that the two soldiers, Corporal Delfin Largo Sarocam and Private First Class Jayson Burgos Valenzuela of the 57th Infantry Battalion, were captured on April 14 in Datu Inda village in the province’s President Roxas town.

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