DAVAO, Philippines: Communist insurgents who seized 39 gold prospectors in the southern Philippines have released all but three of them, authorities said Monday.
Guerrillas of the New People's Army (NPA) released 36 of the small-scale miners they had abducted on Saturday as government troops closed in on them, said Arturo Uy, the area's governor.
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