ZAMBOANGA CITY: Suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits ambushed a police patrol car and bombed the house of a senior government official in separate attacks in Lantawan, Basilan late on Thursday following the attack that killed two Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) employees and wounded two others.

Police said no one was hurt in the ambush in Barangay Bulan-Bulan while a hail of bullets hit the patrol car with seven policemen on board who were returning from an operation.

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