MANILA: Eleven Philippine Army soldiers were killed and 14 others wounded in an hour-long clash with Abu Sayyaf militants in the remote southern Philippine Sulu Province on Friday, the military said on Saturday (April 18).
The Armed Forces of the Philippines' Western Mindanao Command chief Lieutenant General Cirilito Sobejana said in a report that Army troops on patrol clashed with around 40 militants in a village in Patikul town around 3pm, resulting in the killing and wounding of soldiers.
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