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Southeast Asia
Villager killed as fleing rebels clash with Filipino troops
2012-08-24
More than 100 members of a breakaway Muslim terrorist rebel group fleeing from a two-week army offensive clashed again with soldiers Thursday killing a villager and injuring three others in the southern Philippines.

About 15 Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement fighters, who were backed by about 100 other gunmen positioned nearby, fired grenades at an army detachment along a highway early Thursday, sparking a battle, Army Lt. Col. Benjamin Hao said.

A soldier and a militiaman were injured. The gunmen also shot a villager in the head, killing him, while he was using his cellular phone in front of his house. The terrorists rebels may have done that because they suspected he was calling authorities for help. A nurse working in a nearby hospital was hit in the leg by stray gunfire.
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