Manila: Philippine troops rescued two abducted Indonesian sailors in a pre-dawn raid on an Islamist militant stronghold which left two dead, a military official said.
A soldier and a militant of kidnap-for-ransom group Abu Sayyaf – which was behind some of the nation’s worst attacks – were killed during a 30-minute gunfight in the mountainous town of Panamao on the southern island of Jolo.
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