Police and military personnel have captured a man they said is a top leader of the New People's Army in Southern Mindanao, the Philippine Army said Friday.
According to LTC Norman Zuniega of the Philippine Army, the Army 10th Infantry Division and the police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in the Davao region arrested Francisco Saramosing, alias Zoilo Cadeliña and Isko, in Maco, Compostela Valley on Thursday afternoon.
Saramosing is the head of the sub-regional Peasant Bureau and Executive Committee and is a member of the Southern Regional Command 2 of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army.
Authorities claim he is also the former secretary of Guerilla Front 27 of the NPA's Southern Mindanao Regional Command.
He was arrested by virtue of warrants for two separate charges of destructive arson and for murder. The warrants were issued by the Regional Trial Court in Nabunturan, Compostela Valley, the Army said.
Saramosing has been brought to the CIDG headquarters in Tagum City.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/535660/news/regions/top-npa-leader-arrested-in-compostela-valley-army
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