Folks, authorities foil bandit attacks in NCotabato

From the Philippine Star (Oct 17): Folks, authorities foil bandit attacks in NCotabato
Barangay folks, the police and military promptly contained on Monday night two separate bandit attempts in North Cotabato’s Aleosan town, seen to embarrass the government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front, municipal officials said. Lt. Col, Roy Galido, commanding officer of the Army’s 40th Infantry Battalion, said they have asked the government’s ceasefire committee to help build criminal cases against the gunmen that attempted to take over their detachments in Barangays Dungguan and Tugun in the adjoining Aleosan and Pigcawayan towns, respectively.... Key members of the multi-sectoral municipal peace and order councils in the two towns said they have been receiving persistent feedback purporting that a non-aligned Moro gang was behind the harassments of the two Army positions. The attacks came several hours after the signing by the government and MILF panels of the vaunted framework agreement in Malacañang. “The harassments were obviously perpetrated by an 'anti-peace criminal gang’ that wants to disrupt the fragile peace in the surroundings of the detachments that were harassed,” Galido told reporters.... “Bandits engaged in criminal activities were behind those attacks,” Galido said....

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