Joel Guinto
INQUIRER.net
First posted 16:01:25 (Mla time) January 18, 2007
MANILA, Philippines -- (UPDATE) TEN Abu Sayyaf bandits and three Marine soldiers were killed following an encounter in the southern island province of Sulu on Wednesday, two days after government troops killed the al Qaeda-linked group's spokesman and sub-leader there, a military spokesman said.
The military is verifying if the Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Radullan
Sahiron, who led some 30 bandits in the one-hour gunbattle in sitio (sub-village) Biti, Timpook village, Patikul town, was among those killed, said Lieutenant Colonel Ariel Caculitan, Marine spokesman.
All 10 bodies of the Islamic extremists killed in the encounter that started at around 12 p.m., as well as their firearms, were recovered,
Caculitan said in a text message.
"This is part of our commitment to destroy the Abu Sayyaf in Sulu,"
Caculitan said.
Abu Sayyaf spokesman Jainal Sali alias Abu Solaiman was killed after troops overran a bandit camp on Mt. Dajo in Talipao town on Tuesday.
Solaiman's death was confirmed on Wednesday after military assets and one of his wives identified the body that was recovered from the scene of the encounter to be that of the Abu Sayyaf spokesman's.
The bandit group's chieftain, Khadaffy Janjalani, was believed killed in a September 4 encounter with the Marines in Patikul. Tissue samples from his alleged remains, which were dug up in the area, have been submitted for DNA analysis.
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