[Mindanao Examiner] Three soldiers were killed and six others injured, including a policeman, in separate militant attacks in southern Philippines.Communist New People's Army militants ambushed a military convoy in Agusan del Sur’s Prosperidad town late on Friday, triggering a 30-minute firefight. The soldiers were on five trucks and going to a village where militants had been spotted when a roadside bomb exploded and hitting the convoy. Troops recovered another improvised explosive planted by militants.
In Surigao del Norte's Cortes town, militants ambushed a police patrol, injuring an officer. The policemen were responding to a vehicular accident in a nearby village when NPA gunmen attacked them.