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491 NPA members, supporters neutralized from Jan. 1 to May 22 - AFP

Philippine News Agency

By Priam Nepomuceno
May 28, 2025, 9:53 am

MANILA -- The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) announced that 491 New People's Army (NPA) members and their supporters have been neutralized from Jan. 1 to May 22 this year.

Neutralize is a military term referring to the taking out of action, either through surrender, capture or in military encounters of NPA members and their supporters.

AFP spokesperson Col. Francel Margareth Padilla, in a press briefing Tuesday afternoon, said that of this figure, 407 surrendered to government forces.

"(Another) 41 were apprehended and 43 were killed in military operations," she added.

For the period in review, Padilla said 332 firearms and 233 anti-personnel mines were either seized from or surrendered by communist insurgents to the government troops.

Around 68 encampments were also captured in the same period.

The military earlier said that 88 out of the 89 NPA guerrilla fronts were neutralized, leaving only one weakened front. (PNA)