ZAMBOANGA CITY: Suspected Abu Sayyaf rebels killed a government soldier and wounded three others in an aborted kidnapping of a lady doctor in Jolo town, Sulu.

Police said doctor Maryann Lao was shot and wounded on Friday inside her clinic along Scott Road by her would-be abductors who killed her security escort and seriously wounded another soldier and a policeman during the attack.

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