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ZAMBOANGA, Philippines — About 200 Islamic separatists attacked a southern Phillipine city yesterday, plundering banks and stores, burning buildings and fighting troops flown in to defend the city.
The Associated Press
At least 100 people died and 30 more were injured before soldiers drove the rebels into the forest, military officials said.
President Fidel Ramos declared a state of emergency in lpl, a city of 50,000 people on the island of Mindanao about 480 miles south of Manila, and put all troops on Mindanao on alert.
The government said the heavily armed men were members of Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim group fighting for a religious state in the southern Philippines. The group has been linked to a plot to kill Pope John Paul II and blow up American airliners over the Pacific.
Police said the group, which surfaced publicly in 1993, has existed for three years.
The gunmen, who arrived on boats, trucks and a bus, waited for a signal to raid four of the city's seven
banks simultaneously at midday, according to radio reports and the military.
They also ransacked at least one department store and set many buildings on fire to confuse police and soldiers, said military representative Maj. Fredesvinda Covarrubias.
Radio reports said in late afternoon thick smoke filled the town, and one witness who arrived in Zamboanga by bus called Ipil a burning inferno.
Miguela Mondido, who was shot in her left arm, was among 11 injured flown to Zamboanga. One of them died there. Mondido, 39, said she saw a truck full of men heading for the center of town.
"When the truck reached the commercial district, the armed men immediately jumped out of the truck, and I just heard shooting," Mondido said. "I just jumped out of the window. I don't know who fired at our bus."
She said the men wore military uniforms. Other witnesses reported seeing rebels in red headbands and said some wore short pants and civilian clothes.
National police chief Recaredo
Sarmiento said in a television interview that police could only confirm that 23 people had been killed, but the military in Zamboanga and the interior secretary said at least 100 had died. Covarrubias said another 30 were wounded.
Among those killed were the city's police chief, the commander of the 10th Infantry Battalion stationed in pili and a local bank manager.
The military has accused Abu Sayyaf of bombings and ransom kidnappings whose targets included American and Spanish missionaries and Filipino businessmen. In January, two soldiers died and eight were wounded when the military stormed an Abu Sayyaf stronghold.
A former Abu Sayaf officer who recently surrendered to authorities said yesterday's raid was retaliation for the arrests of six Muslim extremists during the weekend.
"There are many more such attacks that will follow," Edwin Angeles told the Manila television station ABS-CBN.
The extremists, who police said had ties to Abu Sayyaf, allegedly were recruiting followers for terrorist attacks. They also allegedly had ties to Ranzi Yousef, who faces trial in New York for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people.
Abu Sayyef espouses an ideology more religiously oriented than the larger and more secular Moro National Liberation Front. The front entered into peace negotiations with the government in late 1992, and some members unhappy with the development joined Abu Sayyef.
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