Manila - Communist rebels released on Monday a video of an army officer captured during a clash in the southern Philippines last month, a guerrilla statement said.

The video showed First Lieutenant Vicente Cammayo telling his wife not to worry because he was being treated well by his captors.

Cammayo was captured in combat on November 7 in Monkayo town in Compostela Valley province, 930 kilometres south of Manila. Two soldiers were killed in the clash.

Rigoberto Sanchez, a spokesman for the rebels, said the guerrillas were also holding a police officer taken prisoner after a separate attack in nearby Davao Oriental province.

Sanchez said both hostages were being interrogated for possible involvement in human rights violations during the government's counter-insurgency campaign.

Communist rebels have been fighting since the late 1960s, making the movement one of the longest-running leftist insurgencies in Asia. (dpa)