By BEN SERRANO Correspondent BUTUAN City––A New People’s Army (NPA) rebel was captured while a member of the police’s 13th Regional Public Safety Battalion (RPSB) was wounded in an encounter near the boundaries of barangays Tungao and San Mateo here on Saturday afternoon. The Caraga police identified the wounded as PO1 Harold Lauro, and the captured rebel as Mario Salingsing Costaños, 33, of Sitio Kaymito, Barangay Tungao, this city. Senior Insp. Marie Josette Oredina said the wounded officer was hit in the tongue, and the bullet pierced through his right cheek. Another bullet hit his right shoulder. Authorities said Costaños, who was caught with a grenade and two mobile phones, has been detained at the police regional office, and was scheduled to be charged yesterday.