ZAMBOANGA CITY: Government troops captured Wednesday an Abu Sayyaf encampment following nearly an hour of running gunbattle in the southern Philippines, the military said.

The military’s Western Mindanao Command in this city said members of the 14th Special Ranger Company seized the camp in the village of Gulangan in Sulu’s Maimbung town.

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