PAGADIAN CITY – Unidentified gunmen ambushed a group of army soldiers on Monday in Zamboanga del Sur in southern Philippines and killing 2 of them, officials said.
Officials said 2 other soldiers were injured in the attack that targeted members of the 53rd Infantry Battalion in the village of Guinicolalay in Dinas town.
The military’s Western Mindanao Command has confirmed the ambush, but did not release the rank and identities of those who perished in the attack. But other reports said one of them was lieutenant.
“We cannot release the names of the casualties pending notification of their immediate families,” said army Major Filemon Tan, a spokesman for the Western Mindanao Command.
No individual or group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the province is a known lair of communist and Moro rebels whose groups are fighting separately for their own homeland in the restive region. (Mindanao Examiner)
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