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| Southeast Asia |
| Provincial police chief ambushed in Mindanao |
| 2014-01-21 |
| Suspected Moro Islamic Liberation Front militants ambushed a police convoy carrying a provincial police commander and injured one of his escorts in the southern Philippines. Officials said about 20 militants were involved in the attack which occurred along a highway in Lanao del Sur’s Picong town. Senior Superintendent Nickson Muksan, police commander in Lanao del Sur, was among those ambushed. His police escort was shot and injured and rushed to hospital. Capt. Jefferson Somera, a spokesman for the 1st Infantry Division, said, “We have received reports the ambush was perpetrated by more or less 20 fully armed men, believed to be combined members of the ATGs and the MILF led by a certain (Commander) Umpa." ATG is the acronym for Auxiliary Threat Group which also refers to the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement and its army of militants. |
| Posted by:ryuge |