A villager was wounded as members of the brigand Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters attacked military positions in Midsayap town and set off improvised explosives Monday following the military’s takeover of the group’s enclave at the border of the neighboring Sultan Kudarat and Maguindanao provinces.
Senior Inspector Henry Narciso, chief of the Midsayap
municipal police, identified the wounded villager as farmer Allan Dimatingkal,
who sustained shrapnel wounds in different parts of his body when a 40 MM grenade
projectile, fired from a distance by a BIFF guerrilla, landed near him.
Narciso said the BIFF bandits, armed with assault rifles
and shoulder-fire grenades, first attacked a village in Barangay Tampad in
Midsayap, a town of mixed Moro and Christian residents in the first district of
North Cotabato.
Narciso said the bandits, after meeting resistance
from soldiers and armed villagers, repositioned and proceeded to nearby
Barangay Nabalawag, also in Midsayap, where they attacked another Army
detachment, sparking a 20-minute firefight.
The gunmen withdrew and escaped toward a nearby marsh after
realizing they could not breach the circumferential fence of the detachment of
the Charlie Company of the 40th IB in Barangay Nabalawag.
The attacks came a day after the Army’s 6th Infantry
Division announced the capture by soldiers of a BIFF enclave at the border of
President Quirino, Sultan Kudarat and Gen. S.K. Pendatun town in Maguindanao.
The BIFF camp was overran after bandits, led by Ustadz
Sukarno, killed militiaman Vicente Macaraeg and farmer Roy Viola in
separate attacks over the weekend in Barangay Bagumbayan in President Quirino.
Sukarno and his men also fired B-40 anti-tank rockets and
assault rifles at a detachment of the 33rd IB in Barangay Bagumbayan as they
fled toward the Liguasan Marsh, bringing with them a dozen water buffaloes they
took from farmers at gunpoint.
http://www.philstar.com/nation/2013/06/25/958070/biff-attacks-midsayap-farmer-hurt
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