ZAMBOANGA CITY: Suspected communist rebels barged into a small karaoke house and fatally shot a former government militia in the southern Philippine province of Zamboanga del Norte, police said.

Police said Fernando Saldon, 51, died instantly from the attack carried out by two young New People’s Army rebels as their companions waited outside the karaoke house in the village of Santa Maria in Leon Postigo town.

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