MANILA: About 50 Philippine communist rebels launched a pre-dawn raid on a power plant yesterday, killing three soldiers and wounding seven before they were driven off, officials said.
Plant security men and soldiers stopped the rebels from breaking through the plant's defences and they were pushed back after a heavy 15-minute exchange of fire but a nearby army post was nearly overrun, they said.
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