Banda Aceh – Eight separatist rebels and three civilians have been killed in Aceh province where an anti-rebel campaign is in its fifth month, the Indonesian military said Friday.

Security forces shot dead the eight Free Aceh Movement (GAM) guerillas in separate clashes in three districts in the province on Thursday, said Aceh military spokesman Ahmad Yani Basuki. One of them was a GAM operational chief for West Aceh district, Basuki said, adding soldiers captured seven rebels in separate raids the same day.

The spokesman also accused GAM of killing three civilians – including a 20-year-old woman – in Pidie district on Thursday and abducting three men in Aceh Besar district. No GAM officials could be immediately reached for confirmation.