Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Source of Zambo rebel guns probed

From the Manila Standard Today (Oct 16): Source of Zambo rebel guns probed

Authorities are tracing the source of firearms used by Moro National Liberation Front rebels to determine if they came from the government armory or were sold by soldiers and police.

Chief Insp. Ariel Huesca, spokesman of police regional office 9, said during the week of Sept. 9 when the siege of Zamboanga began, a government soldier driving a van was stopped at checkpoint and yielded three M-16 rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

About 60 guns recovered during encounters have been examined mostly with tampered serial numbers. They included M-16 and M-14 rifles, M-203 with grenade launchers, M-60 machineguns, caliber .30 machineguns, caliber .45 pistols and a World War II M-1 carbine.

About 260 firearms are in the custody of police retreived from main encounters  in the villages of Rio Hondo, Mariki, Sta. Barbara, Sta. Catalina and Kasangyan.

Huesca said one high-powered firearm in mint condition, however, was registered in the name of a policeman in Pagadian City.

http://manilastandardtoday.com/2013/10/16/source-of-zambo-rebel-guns-probed/

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