Jungle Gun Battle Leaves Undetermined Number of Abu Sayyaf Terrorists Dead
An undetermined number of Abu Sayyaf terrorists were killed or wounded when fighting broke out anew over the weekend between government forces and the extremist group on the island of Sulu in southern Philippines.
Quoting the Western Mindanao Command, the state-run Philippines News Agency (PNA) said that the gun battle occurred in the jungles of Patikul town some 1,000 kilometers southwest of Manila.
Maj. Gen. Eugenio Cedo, WestMincom chief, said the gun battle lasted for almost two hours before the Abu Sayyaf terrorists retreated, dragging along their dead or wounded. The PNA said that elements of the Special Forces Battalion in the Patikul area have engaged some 30 heavily armed Abu Sayyaf terrorists under Radulan Sahiron, while the terrorist group was conducting combat operations in the hinterlands of Patikul.
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