A U.S. Marine sergeant from California was killed alongside three defense contractors when their small plane crashed in the Philippines while conducting a routine intelligence mission. The plane, contracted by the U.S. military, crashed into a rice field near Ampatuan in the southern Maguindanao del Sur province. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
The United States service member who was killed alongside three defense contractors when their small plane crash ed in the Philippines has been identified as a Marine from California.Sgt. Jacob M. Durham died Thursday when a plane contracted by the U.S. military was conducting a routine mission 'providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine allies,' officials at Camp Pendleton in California said in a statement.
The bodies of the four people were retrieved from the wreckage in Ampatuan town, said Ameer Jehad Tim Ambolodto, a safety officer of Maguindanao del Sur.U.S. forces have been deployed in a Philippine military camp in the country's south for decades to help provide training and advice to Filipino forces battling Muslim militants. The region is home to minority Muslims in the largely Roman Catholic nation.
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