Dozens of suspected Islamic militants knocked down a concrete wall and barged into a jail in the southern Philippines, freeing 31 inmates in an attack that sparked a gunbattle in which two people were killed.
Vice-Governor Al Rasheed Sakalahul of Basilan Island said the gunmen cut through padlocks with boltcutters after using a sledgehammer to destroy the wall at Isabela jail.
Jail break-in
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