Three Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) fighters were killed alongside with two troopers from Marine Battalion Landing Team (MBLT)-3 following an encounter in Barangay Rio Hondo,
Five Marines were also wounded.
Major Angelo Guzman, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) deputy public affairs office chief, said the incident took place around 4:25 a.m.
He added MBLT-3 was conducting blocking operations when it engaged heavily armed MNLF members coming from the fishpond at the extension of Zamboanga State College of Marine Science & Technology in Barangay Rio Hondo.
A 20-minute firefight ensued which resulted in the death of three MNLF members and two Marines and wounding of five others.
Recovered from the slain MNLF men was an M-16 automatic rifle.
Guzman clarified that the MNLF elements encountered by the Marines this morning are not "reinforcements but had been in the area since day one.”
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=570020
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