Residents wait at a checkpoint in Datu Paglas, Maguindanao province, southern Philippines on May 8, 2021 following the standoff with the rebel group. - AP
COTABATO, Philippines (AP): Dozens of Muslim militants occupied a public market overnight in the southern Philippines before fleeing after a tense standoff with government forces, officials said Saturday (May 8).
The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters did not take any hostage or put up resistance when army troops and police took positions at dawn Saturday near the public market in the farming town of Datu Paglas, said military spokesman Lt. Col. John Paul Baldomar.
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