Fresh fighting between Philippine troops and a renegade group of Muslim rebels 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 on the main southern island of Mindanao, regional military spokesman Col. Dickson Hermoso said.

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