Three people were injured in a grenade explosion during a
firefight between security forces and Abu Sayyaf rebels in the southern
Filipino town of Patikul
It said the
civilians were caught in the crossfire when the two groups clashed on Friday
afternoon in Taglibi where Abu Sayyaf rebels attacked an army detachment.
There were no
reports of casualties from either the military or the Abu Sayyaf group, but troops
continued its hunt for rebels blamed for the recent killing of Rodolfo Boligao,
a village chieftain they kidnapped in Aliguay
Island off Dapitan City
Boligao was
beheaded and his body dumped on a highway near the town of Maimbung
It was unknown
who fired the grenade, but a police report said it was a 40mm and fired from a
rifle and that both the military and the Abu Sayyaf have this kind of weapon.
The Abu Sayyaf
is still holding several Filipino and foreign hostages kidnapped in different
areas in southern Philippines
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