Philippine Navy (PN) spokesperson Lt. Cmdr. Gregory Fabic on Tuesday said that seven fast boats and elite troopers were deployed to Zamboanga City to help the military in its cordoning operation against rogue Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) members who attacked several barangays and held hostage around 168 people there Monday.
The PN's deployment to Zamboanga City consisted of two patrol gunboats (PGs), two multi-purpose assault craft (MPAC), a diesel fastcraft (DF), four teams of NAVSOU special boat teams, two sniper teams, one explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team and around 100 Philippine Marine Corps personnel.
"These (assets) will be deployed in naval blockade and negation operations," Fabic stated.
Five of these ships are the BRP Emilio Liwanag (PG-118), BRP Leovigildo Gantioque (PG-384) and MPACs BA-486, BA-487 and DF-336.
The fast crafts will be deployed off
"They will be further augmented by two more MPACs and around 200 Marines," he added.
These units will be under the Western Mindanao Command.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=564202
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