Baku-APA. At least five government soldiers and a civilian were killed while more than 20 others wounded in a gun battle inside a state-run university late Wednesday in the southern Philippines, a military official said Thursday, APA reports.
Col. Daniel Lucero, commander of the 103rd Infantry Brigade, said troops under 64th Infantry Battalion were responding to a gun fire inside State Mindanao University in the city of Marawi in Lanao del Sur province when they were attacked by armed men believed to be members of a drug syndicate.
Twenty other people, mostly students, were wounded.
"We believed the attackers belong to a drug syndicate and they could be high on illegal drugs," Lucero said. "Soldiers were pursuing the attackers."
6 killed, 20 others wounded in gun battle inside S. Philippine university
09 August 2012 03:53 (UTC +04:00)
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