Manila: A communist rebel ambush killed six Philippine soldiers and wounded 20 others, the military said, in one of the deadliest assaults in the nation’s five-decade-old Maoist insurgency.
Troops patrolling on foot on the eastern island of Samar were hit with homemade bombs and fought a 30-minute gunfight with New People’s Army (NPA) rebels on Monday.
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