MANILA: Two Philippines soldiers and an unknown number of guerrillas opposed to the government's peace deal with the country's largest Muslim rebel group were killed in a clash Thursday, the military said.
Fighting broke out in the south a day after President Benigno Aquino asked Congress to pass a Muslim autonomy law for the region, a key step to ending a decades-old rebellion that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
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