Philippine troops kill 3 more militants on tourist island

MANILA, Apr 23: Philippine soldiers have killed three more Islamic State-linked militants on a resort island where they were hiding after a failed attempt to kidnap tourists, a military spokesman said today.
The Islamist militants from the Abu Sayyaf group were killed in a clash yesterday on Bohol island, a considerable distance to the north of their strongholds in the far south of the predominantly Christian country.
Two or three of them were still at large, said Colonel Edgard Arevalo, chief of the military’s public affairs office.
“We have reports indicating that they were also wounded and running out of supplies,” Arevalo said.
A group of about 10 militants infiltrated Bohol this month.
(Reuters)