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A "blue-eyed foreigner" was allegedly among the dead, according to a local farmer, after a clash between the Philippine National Police and Moro forces occurred in Mindanao on the 26th of January. Claims that one of the dead was a part of American operations in the Philippines was an American service member. (Rappler)