MANILA: Security forces in the southern Philippines have killed two members of a local Muslim extremist organisation sympathetic to the Islamic State group, a police report said Saturday.

Police commandos raided a hideout of the Ansar Khilafa Philippines (AKP) group in the coastal town of Maasim on Thursday, killing two fighters, a police report said.

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