Army says NPA fighters in Northern Mindanao ‘down to 16’

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The New People’s Army’s (NPA) North Central Mindanao Regional Committee (NCMRC) has been reduced to just 16 armed guerrillas, the military said, signaling what could be the government’s final push to end the communist insurgency in the region. In an interview on Thursday afternoon, Lieutenant Col. Joe Patrick Martinez, the