A police technician clad in a bomb suit walks past a damaged car at the site of a suspected car bomb explosion along the highway in Zamboanga City in the souther Philippines on January 23.
Photo: EPA
[From article]
More than 30 police commandos were killed in a clash with Muslim insurgents Sunday in the southern Philippines in the biggest single-day combat loss for Philippine forces in many years, officials said.
The commandos had entered the far-flung village of Tukanalipao at dawn looking for a top terror suspect, but had a “misencounter” with members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and other insurgents, Mayor Tahirudin Benzar Ampatuan of Mamasapano town told The Associated Press by telephone.
Other insurgents in the area later joined in fighting the outnumbered police forces, the mayor said.
http://nypost.com/2015/01/25/30-filipino-commandos-killed-in-clash-with-muslim-insurgents/
30 Filipino commandos killed in clash with Muslim insurgents
By Associated Press
New York Post
January 25, 2015 | 10:52am
[From article]
More than 30 police commandos were killed in a clash with Muslim insurgents Sunday in the southern Philippines in the biggest single-day combat loss for Philippine forces in many years, officials said.
The commandos had entered the far-flung village of Tukanalipao at dawn looking for a top terror suspect, but had a “misencounter” with members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and other insurgents, Mayor Tahirudin Benzar Ampatuan of Mamasapano town told The Associated Press by telephone.
Other insurgents in the area later joined in fighting the outnumbered police forces, the mayor said.
http://nypost.com/2015/01/25/30-filipino-commandos-killed-in-clash-with-muslim-insurgents/
30 Filipino commandos killed in clash with Muslim insurgents
By Associated Press
New York Post
January 25, 2015 | 10:52am
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