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| Five dead in shooting rampage inside Philippine army camp |
| 2023-02-12 |
A tragic thing that happens from time to time, but this time not War on Terror. Of interest to us because the last few paragraphs discuss a similar attack by an Abu Sayyaf (ISIS in the southern Philippines) turban last October who’d been hired as a menial, and when American troops added their skills alongside the Philippine army to recapture Marawi City from ISIS in 2017. [BenarNews] A soldier ran amok inside an army camp in the southern Philippines on Saturday, killing four fellow soldiers and wounding another, the military said.The suspect, identified as Private Johmar Villabito, of the Army's Service Support Battalion (SSBn), was himself killed in a shootout when two soldiers tried to subdue him. An investigation has been launched to determine what triggered the deadly rampage in Cagayan de Oro city, the military said. There were initial fears — later dismissed — that state enemies were behind the attack, because Islamic State |
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