Two suspected Abu Sayyaf militants, including one implicated in the deadly Valentine's Day bombings, were arrested in separate raids in the southern Philippines, officials said yesterday. Soldiers arrested Ahib Buday in Pagalungan town in Maguindanao province before dawn on Saturday, army spokesman Maj. Bartolome Bacarro said.The 40-year old militant was implicated in the bombing of a passenger in Manila's financial district of Makati on Feb. 14. Six people were killed and more than 100 others were injured in the explosion. "Buday was involved in the bombing in Manila and he is currently being interrogated," Bacarro told Arab News. He said another militant named Rasidin Mohammad was also nabbed in the coastal village of Arena Blanco in Zamboanga City on Friday. The military implicated Mohammad in the kidnapping of three US and 17 Filipino holiday-makers in the posh Dos Palmas resort in Palawan in 2001 and a dozen farmers in the southern island of Basilan in 2002. "Their arrest is part of the government campaign in fighting terrorism," Bacarro said. It was not immediately known if Mohammad or Buday were also involved in other bombings in the southern Philippines. Two other bombs also exploded in the southern port cities of General Santos and Davao on Valentine's Day that killed several civilians. Other reports said Buday is being implicated in the bombing of the SM Megamall in May 2000 in Manila.