ZAMBOANGA CITY: Army soldiers killed an Abu Sayyaf rebel in fresh clashes that also left four infantrymen wounded in Basilan province in the volatile Muslim autonomous region in southern Philippines.

The fighting erupted late Thursday in the village called Umalon in Ungkaya Pukan town after troops pursuing the rebels caught up with them and a firefight broke out. Soldiers from the 18th Infantry Battalion also recovered the body of the slain rebel.

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