ZAMBOANGA CITY: Communist insurgents freed six out of over a dozen soldiers and militias they captured in southern Philippines, and, at the same time, raided a military post and killing two soldiers and wounding another in the restive region.

Army Lt. Col. Ezra Balagtey, spokesman for the Eastern Mindanao Command, said that in a ceremony held on Thursday in the hinterlands of Barangay San Juan, Bayugan

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