PHILIPPINE Marines have killed eight bandits, including the alleged leader of Ansarul Khilafah (Supporters of the Caliphate) in the Philippines (AKP), during an encounter with government troops in Sultan Kudarat late Thursday afternoon.

Maj. Filemon Tan Jr., spokesman of the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) Western Mindanao Command, said the military and the police were about to serve an arrest warrant against members of the group led by one Ansar Al Khalifa Muhammad Jaafar Maguid, alias “Tokboy.”

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