KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian security forces scouring rugged terrain in Borneo on Wednesday briefly battled armed Filipinos who were on the run after being bombarded with airstrikes and mortar fire, police said. One Filipino was shot and believed killed. The capture of nearly 200 members of a Philippine Muslim clan would ease public nervousness in resource-rich Sabah, which has been shaken in the past week by the killing of eight police officers and 19 Filipino gunmen who slipped into neighboring Malaysia. Malaysian soldiers and police on Tuesday attacked the area that the Filipinos have occupied for three weeks in an extraordinary siege intended to highlight their terr...
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