Google Earth Maps of Pata Island off Sulu province in southern Philippines. (Mindanao Examiner)
SULU (Mindanao Examiner / Nov. 26, 2013) – Police forces killed for Abu Sayyaf rebels in a gun battle in the island of Pata off the southern Philippine province of Sulu, officials said Tuesday.
Senior Superintendent Abraham Orbita, the provincial police chief, said the police forces were tracking down the rebels when they ran into a group of Abu Sayyaf gunmen and fighting erupted at Sitio Likud Pata in the village of Tumaddas.
There was no report of police casualties. The identities of those killed were not immediately known. (Mindanao Examiner)
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