BASILAN PROVINCE: Government troops have killed an Abu Sayyaf sub-leader and his follower in a violent clash that left five soldiers and two militiamen wounded in this province in southern Philippines, part of the war-torn Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
The three-hour fighting on Friday killed Eric Ajibun and one of his men in Macalang village in the town of Al-Barka, where forces of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which signed an interim peace deal with the Aquino government in 2014, had clashed with the Abu Sayyaf.
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