ZAMBOANGA CITY -- At least 10 government militias were killed Thursday in fierce fighting with Muslim rebels talking peace with government in Maguindanao Province in the southern Philippines. | That's going well, don't you think? |
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said rebel forces killed at least 10 militias and had overran a military command post in the town of Shariff Aguak, scene of a bomb attack last week that killed five people and injured 14 others.
Two rebels were reported wounded in the clashes, said Eid Kabalu, an MILF spokesman. "The fighting is still ongoing, I can hear the sounds of automatic gunfire and explosions from where I am now," Kabalu said by phone from a rebel base in Maguindanao late Thursday. |