THREE Philippine marines have been killed and 10 wounded in a clash with al-Qaeda-linked militants who are holding several foreign hostages.
The troops from the Marine Battalion Landing Team 6 were deployed to a remote village on the southern island of Jolo to check intelligence reports about the presence there of Abu Sayyaf gunmen and their captives.
"The troops conducted a combat patrol to verify the reported presence of the kidnap victims in the area when they caught up with the Abu Sayyaf group, resulting in the encounter," said a regional military spokesman.
Three were killed and military helicopters evacuated the 10 injured, he said.
The marines reported having killed two Abu Sayyaf militants, although none of the hostages was sighted or recovered.
The Abu Sayyaf, whose followers number in the low hundreds, is blamed for the country's worst terrorist attacks including a ferry bombing in 2004 that killed more than 100.
The group is also behind a series of high-profile kidnappings of foreign and local tourists as well as businessmen.
It is on the US government's list of foreign terrorist organisations, and a number of American advisers have been rotating in the southern Philippines for the past decade helping local counterparts to try to crush the group.
A number of foreign hostages are believed held by the Abu Sayyaf in its Jolo stronghold or elsewhere, including two European bird-watchers seized in February and an Australian abducted last December.
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