Manila, June 17 -- A total of 871 New People's Army (NPA) insurgents and their supporters were "neutralized" by government troops from Jan. 1 to June 12, the Armed Forces of the Philippines said Tuesday.

Of this figure, 776 have surrendered, 44 were arrested and 51 killed in various military operations, AFP spokesperson Col. Francel Margareth Padilla said in a media briefing in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City.

Neutralized in military parlance refers to the capture, elimination and surrender of enemy troops to government pressure. For the same period, a total of 490 firearms and 257 anti-personnel mines (APMs) were either seized or surrendered.

Padilla also said 80 NPA encampments were also captured by military forces in the same period.

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