ZAMBOANGA CITY: Unidentified gunmen ambushed a police patrol on Sunday and wounded at least four people in the southern Filipino province of Zamboanga del Norte, officials said.

Officials said the ambushed patrol in Santo Nino village in Sibuco town sparked a firefight and that two civilians were among the injured. Police and military forces were sent to the town to pursue the attackers who escaped to the neighboring village of Lakiki.

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