DAVAO CITY – The Philippine Army is holding a senior communist rebel leader following her capture in Butuan City in the southern region of Mindanao, officials said Saturday.

Captain Ezra Balagtey, a spokesman for the Eastern Mindanao Command, said soldiers and policemen arrested Nerita de Castro in her hideout at the Emenville Subdivision in the village called Ambago.

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