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| Southeast Asia |
| Soldiers retake police station occupied by Abu Sayyaf |
| 2015-05-11 |
| [Gulf Today] Philippine security forces have retaken a police station occupied by Abu Sayyaf militants in Mindanao. Navy Captain Roy Vincent Trinidad acknowledged that civilian volunteers helped the troops recapture the police station seized by the Abu Sayyaf in a village in the town of Tuburan, Basilan. The insurgents attacked and took over the police station on May 2 when the two police officers there withdrew because they were outnumbered. Trinidad said that before they withdrew, the militants planted inside the police station and a nearby telecommunication cellular phone site several improvised explosive devices which were later defused by military bomb experts. He also revealed the Abu Sayyaf beheaded a telecommunication worker they had abducted and held hostage as they occupied the police station. In related news, army spokesman Captain Joanne Petinglay reported that three soldiers aboard a military truck were injured when an improvised bomb exploded as they were traveling through in the town of Sharif Aguak in Maguindanao. Petinglay speculated that the bomb was detonated by members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF). |
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