ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) - Philippine troops clashed with Muslim guerrillas Wednesday in a mountain rain forest, in a running gunbattle that killed a soldier and injured two others, an official said.
Several of about two dozen Abu Sayyaf rebels were believed to have been hurt in the fighting at dawn in the southern Basilan island's Tuburan town, said army Col. Bonifacio Ramos.
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