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Rebels fighting against government forces appear to be losing ground in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines.
About 100,000 people are believed to have been displaced during the 10 days of fighting, but now there are reports of troops moving from house-to-house, seeking out the last of the rebels and their hostages.
The military has warned the rebel holdouts that they faced two choices: surrender unconditionally, or “suffer the consequences and feel the weight of the suffering of so many innocent people in your hands,” Lieutenant-Colonel Ramon Zagala, Philippine military spokesman, said.
Army officials told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that 12 soldiers had been killed and 115 others wounded in the fighting with suspected fighters of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), who seek an Islamic state in the southern Philippines.
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