Calm urged after Filipino cops kill troops

Updated July 4 2020 - 6:32am, first published 6:26am
President Rodrigo Duterte says there will be a probe into the fatal shooting of four soldiers.
President Rodrigo Duterte says there will be a probe into the fatal shooting of four soldiers.

The Philippine president has flown to the country's volatile south to plead with military forces not to retaliate following the fatal police shootings of four soldiers in violence the army chief called "a rubout".

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