Communist guerrillas have abducted three villagers, including a policeman, and burned construction equipment in new attacks in the Philippines and condemned President Rodrigo Duterte as a "double-speaking thug" for terminating peace talks.
Police say the rebels also burned two trucks transporting copper ore in the northern mountain town of Itogon but didn`t harm the drivers.
Army officials said troops were pursuing the attackers, about 60 suspected New People`s Army rebels who seized the three people and burned construction equipment Thursday in Talakag town in southern Bukidnon province.
Duterte lifted the government`s ceasefire and discarded talks with the rebels last week after the guerrillas abandoned their own truce and killed six soldiers and kidnapped two others in new flare-ups in the 48-year insurgency.
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