Fresh fighting between government troops and a renegade group of Muslim rebels in Mindanao left seven people dead Saturday amid peace talks aimed at ending a decades-old rebellion, the military said.

The gunmen, who oppose the main Islamic rebel group's negotiations with Manila, ambushed an army truck in Guidulungan town in Maguindanao, regional military spokesman Colonel Dickson Hermoso said.

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