News Briefs: NPA captures two militiamen in Davao Oriental

From the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Feb 18): News Briefs: NPA captures two militiamen in Davao Oriental

The communist New People’s Army (NPA) said it captured two more militiamen in Lupon town of Davao Oriental on Tuesday, bringing to seven the number of government troops in their custody since January this year.

Rigoberto Sanchez, NPA Southern Mindanao spokesperson, said the NPA captured militiamen Rene Doller, 34, and Carl Mark Nucos, 24, both of the 72nd Infantry Battallion in a checkpoint the rebels set up in Barangay Don Mariano in Lupon, Davao Oriental, on Feb. 14.

Sanchez said his group had been treating their captives well.

This developed as NPA rebels in Central Mindanao assured that Pvt. 1st Class Samuel Garay and Sergeant Solaiman Calocop, whom the rebels captured in Colombio, Sultan Kudarat on Feb. 1, were alive and well.

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