ZAMBOANGA CITY: Marines captured a jungle base of the militant Abu Sayyaf group following a fierce battle that left two soldiers wounded in Sulu, officials said on Thursday.

Marine Captain Maria Rowena Muyuela, a spokeswoman for the Western Mindanao Command, said troops recovered a huge cache of improvised explosives from the Abu Sayyaf base in Patikul town believed used by Radulan Sahiron, a senior leader of the group which is being linked by authorities to al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiya.

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