Security troops arrested to suspected members of the New People's Army's (NPA) bomb squad in Tayabas town, Quezon province on Thursday.

Chief Superintendent Perfecto Palad, Calabarzon regional police director, identified the suspected rebels as Emerson Abenilla and Cesario Santonia.

Palad said the suspects were netted in a checkpoint manned by joint members of the Tayabas police and the Army's 1st Infantry Battalion in Barangay Ilayang Ipilan around 2 p.m.

Seized from the suspects were three backpacks filled with an improvised anti-personnel mine, two electrical blasting caps, two Apple type hand grenades and alleged subversive documents. With a report from Noel Alamar, radio dzMM