| Filipino prisoners scramble to safety inside the jail compound in Taguig during an assault on armed suspected Abu Sayyaf prisoners on Tuesday. At least seventeen people, including four Abu Sayyaf leaders, have been killed so far as the alleged Moro rebels grabbed guns, creating a standoff between police and the suspects. (AP) |
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MANILA (5th Update, 1:30 p.m.) –- The number of fatalities in the two-day jail crisis in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig, has gone up to 26, National Capital Region Police Director Avelino Razon said.
Twenty-one inmates including three top leaders of the Abu Sayyaf, a militant group linked to Al-Qaeda, were killed when police attacked the four-storey building earlier seized by the group of Alhamzer Manatad Limbong alias Kumander Kosovo
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