| Protesters, some of them OFWs laid off in Taiwan recently, picket the office in charge of overseas workers’ welfare in Manila, Friday. (AP Photo) |
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MANILA -- Gunmen armed with automatic weapons and grenades fired on police officers who were tailing them, leaving at least 17 people dead in a fierce shootout in a Manila suburb on Saturday.
Officers were following suspected members of a robbery gang when the gunmen sensed the surveillance and opened fire, triggering the gunfight late Friday near a residential subdivision in suburban Paranaque City, Metropolitan Manila police chief Leopoldo Bataoil said.
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