MANILA: Philippine officials were close to agreeing to the demands of a group of Muslim militants who were holed up in a jail here yesterday after snatching weapons from their guards and killing three of them, negotiators said.
Police said they were prepared to launch an assault on the police detention centre in the Manila suburb of Taguig if talks failed.
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