CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 26 May) – Philippine authorities captured a senior leader of the New People’s Army rebels and his wife in the southern province of Misamis Oriental.
Security officials said the duo - Mar Lopez, also known as "Ka Mebel and Ka Bobit" and Lolita Gambota - were being interrogated on Saturday at an army base in the province.
Lopez is also the secretary of the SECOM 1, Front Committee 4-B of the Communist Party of the Philippines-Central Mindanao Regional Committee (NCMRC); while his wife is said to be a finance officer.
The two were nabbed late Friday in the hinterland village of Napaliran in Balingasag town after troops tracked them down.
There was no immediate statement from the CPP or the NPA, its armed wing, which has been fighting the past three decades for the establishment of a Maoist state in the Philippines. (With reports from Romy Bwaga and Merlyn Manos)
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