TWO Marine soldiers were killed and several others were wounded on Thursday morning following a two-hour long firefight between troops of the Marine Battalion Landing Team-12 (MBLT-12) and a group of unidentified armed group in a remote village in Bataraza town in Palawan.

Reports reaching the Philippine National Police (PNP) National Operation Center in Camp Crame said the encounter took place in the vicinity of a local dam in Barangay Bono-Bono, Bataraza town.

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