CEBU CITY: Authorities arrested on Saturday a couple suspected as high ranking officials of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) in a joint military and police operation in Getafe, Bohol.

Lt. Col. Allan Tabudlo, commander of the 47th Infantry (Katapatan) Battalion based in Tubigon, Bohol, said in a statement that the couple, Rey Camacho, 51, and his wife, Carmelita, 48, were arrested by virtue of a warrant of arrest for murder issued by a Bohol regional trial court.