ZAMBOANGA
CITY – Government forces killed 2 Abu Sayyaf fighters in a clash in the remote
southern Filipino province of Tawi-Tawi, officials said Tuesday.
Officials
said the weekend fighting occurred in the town of Tandubas after Marines and
police commandos tracked down a group of militants in the village of Taruk.
The fighting
lasted only about 10 minutes after the gunmen split into smaller groups and
abandoned the bodies of the slain terrorists.
Lt. Gen. Cirilito
Sobejana, chief of the military’s Western Mindanao Command, identified the dead
militants as Kamsel Ampang and Jul Haber, believed to be involved in cross-border
kidnappings and attacks on security forces in the province which is near Sabah
in Malaysia.
Operations
against the Abu Sayyaf is continuing in Tawi-Tawi and Sulu, two of 5 provinces
under the restive Muslim autonomous region.
Last month,
Abu Sayyaf militants killed and wounded over 2 dozen soldiers in a series of
clashes in Sulu, a stronghold of the pro-ISIS group fighting for the
establishment of a caliphate in the South. (Zamboanga Post)
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