ZAMBOANGA: Muslim rebels clashed with troops and took hostages in a fresh outbreak of violence in the strife-torn southern Philippines, officials said.
The fighting in the centre of Mindanao island came as a standoff with another Muslim armed group elsewhere in Mindanao entered its third week.
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