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18:00, 19-Jul-2017
One dead, five injured after presidential guards ambushed
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One security guard was killed and five others injured after a convoy of the Philippine Presidential Security Group (PSG) was ambushed in the south of the country on Wednesday, the military said.
Members of the PSG were on their way to conduct an inspection in the town of Arakan, in Mindanao's North Cotabato Province, ahead of President Rodrigo Duterte's visit.
They were waylaid by an undetermined number of New People's Army (NPA) guerrillas at around 6 a.m., according to regional military spokesperson Ezra Balagtey.
Local media said the president's security personnel were approaching a checkpoint manned by men in military uniforms when they stopped after doubting their identities. A fire exchange followed.
Soldiers carry a wounded member of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's presidential security group who was injured in a roadside bomb attack in the southern Philippine city of Marawi on November 29, 2016. /VCG Photo
Soldiers carry a wounded member of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's presidential security group who was injured in a roadside bomb attack in the southern Philippine city of Marawi on November 29, 2016. /VCG Photo
This was the second such incident in one year.
In November 2016, seven PSG members and two soldiers were wounded after their vehicle was targeted by an improvised explosive device in the southern Philippine city of Marawi.
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