Sabah standoff: Teen shot dead by Police

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Malaysian police shot dead a teenager and injured a man Sunday as they tried to end a month-long incursion by Filipino gunmen in remote Sabah state that has seen 62 people killed.

The death of the teen, whose identity and nationality has not yet been confirmed, came on the same day that police said two officers were hurt in clashes with armed Filipino Islamists.

Malaysia, facing its worst security crisis in years, insists the gunmen must surrender and has launched air- and ground strikes against them, but they continue to hide within a security cordon around two villages and farm land.

Malaysian police shot the boy, believed to be between 12 and 15 years old, and the man in his 30s when they noticed movement in some bushes while frisking a group of five near the battlezone, federal police chief Ismail Omar said.

Gunmen have traded fresh fire with security forces since late Saturday, also injuring two policemen who have been hospitalised. Eight policemen were killed in clashes before the Malaysian military assault began.

Police said earlier Sunday they have arrested a total of 85 people in the state under a security law and are investigating them for "committing terrorist acts".

Meanwhile, authorities are fine-tuning operations in a "special security area" along Sabah's east coast, where they are stationing five army battalions, or about 3,500 men, to protect more than 1.4 million people following the incursion.