Government Forces Kill Onetime Guerrilla Leader Mauk Moruk
August 10 2015
A former East Timor guerrilla leader has been killed in a fight with soldiers and police, reports Agence France Presse.
Mauk Moruk was killed Saturday during a joint police and military operation in the town of Fatulia in Harare province, said a government spokesman.
"Every effort was made during the operation to avoid this outcome," he said.
Two others were killed and several were injured, said the spokesman, without identifying who they were.
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