8 Filipino fishermen shot dead at sea
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EIGHT local fishermen have been found shot dead in their boat off the piracy-plagued southern Philippines, the military said yesterday.
The outrigger boat was attacked in the Moro Gulf off the Zamboanga peninsula on Mindanao island on Monday night, it said, citing an account by one of seven survivors.
A photograph released by the military showed the wooden fishing boat, recovered by the coast guard yesterday, with a bloodied corpse atop another corpse.
“The other (crew) members jumped off the boat and survived,” regional military spokesman Major Filemon Tan said.
Tan said authorities suspect the fishermen were killed either as part of an extortion attempt or due to rivalry with the crew of other fishing boats.
The survivors swam to a small island, while the five unidentified gunmen left the area aboard their own boat, the spokesman added.
The waters off southwest Mindanao are troubled by piracy, including by Abu Sayyaf Islamic militants based on Basilan island and the Sulu island group near the port of Zamboanga.
(AFP)
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