(AHN) - Philippine security forces on Sunday confirmed the death of a member of a Southeast Asian regional terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah, in a sea battle with government troops in Tawi-tawi island, southern Philippines on Saturday.
Philippine Navy Spokesman Giovanni Carlo Bacordo identifies the slain JI member as a certain "Gufran," an Indonesian trusty of Dulmatin, who is among the JI leaders being pursued by government forces in Sulu, south of the capital Manila. In a press conference at the Navy headquarters in Manila, Bacodo said that five other members of the Abu Sayyar terror group, were also killed in the sea battle including two of its leaders. He said the six terrorists were killed when they engaged the Philippine Navy forces off the waters of Balimbing village, Panglima Sugala town in Tawi-tawi, the southwesternmost province of the Philippines on Saturday afternoon. |