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Communist rebels have shot and killed a police chief and four other officers in northern Philippines after detonating roadside bombs under their patrol car, officials said.
Sunday’s attack killed the Rizal town police chief, his brother, wife and two other officers. Two other police officials were also wounded in the ambush.
At least nine Maoist rebels were killed in an overnight “gun-battle” with police in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand, officials said on Friday.
Police officials said the gun battle with the rebels erupted at the Betla national park in Latehar district late Thursday when the police combed the thickly-forested area.
Nepal’s Maoists have relinquished control of at least 19,000 former fighters to government control in a move expected to boost the country’s peace process.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the Maoist leader popularly known as Prachanda, and Madhav Kumar Nepal, the country’s prime minister, signed a joint declaration on Saturday to place the former fighters under the control of a cross-party committee headed by the prime minister.
Heavy confrontation broke out between Al shabaab fighters and Somalia’s moderate Ahlu Sunna Wal-jamaca (ASWJ) in Galguduud region in central Somalia, reports said on Monday.
Reports said that the confrontation occur in Wardhumalo village in Galguduud region, adding that heavy gun fire and RBG guns which both al-Shabaab extremist fighters and moderate Ahlu Sunna fighters have been exchanging for several hours.
Sheikh Abdirazak Mohammed Ali, the spokesman of Ahlu Sunna Wal-jamaca fighters in central Somalia, told Shabelle radio that Ahlu Sunna fighters launched attacks on al-Shabaab positions in the village Wardhumalo.
Sudanese government armed forces clashed yesterday with rebels from the western region of Darfur, leaving 21 killed from both sides, army spokesman Al-Sawarmi Khaled said today.
The fighting took place when rebels from the Justice and Equality Movement, the biggest armed group in the region, and the Sudan Liberation Movement faction led by Minni Minnawi, ambushed a military convoy on the road between El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, and Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state, Khaled said.
“The armed forces successfully quashed the ambush,” Khaled said by phone from Khartoum, the Sudanese capital. “The battle lasted for four hours.”
Eight soldiers were killed from the armed forces, while the rebels lost 13 fighters in the battle, he said.