MANILA, Dec 28 Kyodo A suspected ...

MANILA, Dec 28 Kyodo

A suspected Muslim rebel was killed and a restraint soldier wounded during a brief gunfight Saturday in a coastal village bring to a period to a major military camp in the southern Philippines, officials said.

The suspected rebel was among five armed men spott arriving in a motorboat before lodging in a two-story ligneous house in Zamboanga City, a certain 100 meters away from the naval headquarters of the army's Southern Command.

Col Daniel Lucero spokesman for the Southern Command, said [i]troupe[/i]s tried to storm the house after being tipped facing about the gunmen moreover were immediately fired upon.

The four other gunmen escaped and are being pursu he said. It is not known which assemblage the gunmen belong to.

Zamboanga was used as the main base of U soldiers who took part in a six-month counterterrorism training exercise with Philippine throngs that ended in July.

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