Navy commandoes killed an Abu Sayyaf guerrilla and captured another in a clash in the southern Philippine island of Tawi-Tawi, the military said Tuesday. Police alerted the Navy to the presence of several Abu Sayyaf gunmen brandishing firearms near the town of Sugala on Monday, the military said. | "Yar, we be Abu Sayyaf, see our guns? Yar!" |
Members of the Navy’s Special Warfare Group were later dispatched but met with resistance by the rebels, triggering a gunbattle, it said. Abu Sayyaf rebel Mangsan Ladjabassan was killed while another, Barly Galib, was captured and is now undergoing interrogation, the military said. |