Manila, April 10 -- The Tanay-headquartered 2nd Infantry Division (2ID) of the Philippine Army on Thursday announced that its troops had seized a large New People's Army (NPA) arms cache in Labo town, Camarines Norte late Wednesday.

In a media statement on Thursday, 2ID spokesperson Lt. Col. Jeffrex Molina said soldiers from the 16th Infantry Battalion under the 201st Infantry Brigade, managed to seize the NPA arms cache in Barangay Exciba with the help of a former rebel.

"The discovered cache contains one Ultimax light machine gun, one M-653 rifle, one M-14 rifle, seven M-16 A1 rifles, 14 magazines, 16 hand grenades, two rolls of detonating cord, 4,211 rounds of 5.56mm live ammunition, and 715 rounds of 7.62mm live ammunition," he said...