Four gunmen were killed in Bohol as government forces pursued remnants of an Islamic militant group behind a foiled mass kidnapping attempt there, authorities said on Sunday.

The government said the dead suspects were stragglers from a boatload of southern Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf gunmen who sailed to the central island of Bohol early this month as part of a plot to kidnap tourists.

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