Residents of four villages in Talitay, Maguindanao fled their homes Friday after an ambush that left three bodyguards of Mayor Montasser Sabal were killed and two others wounded triggered fighting between two units of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Reports traced the incident to a feud between rival clans.
As of this posting, intermittent skirmishes were still being reported in Talitay despite military and police reinforcements deployed to the town in the wake of the ambush.
Sabal is in Mecca to perform the Hajj.
Talitay Vice Mayor accused fighters under MILF 105th Base Commander Hadji Karon Buisan of staging the ambush and said politics could have been the motive for the attack.
On the other hand, the victims have relatives in the MILF’s 106th Base Command.
Talitay chief of police Senior Inspector Freddie Solar said Sabal’s bodyguards were on their way to Cotabato City when they were attacked in Barangay Poblacion around 7:45 a.m.
Meanwhile, in the town of Kabacan, North Cotabato, a village councilman was shot dead while a student was wounded by a stray bullet Thursday evening.
Ronald Casimina, of Barangay Bangilan, was declared dead on arrival at a hospital after he was gunned down along Abellera St., Barangay Poblacion.
The 21-year old student of the University of Southern Mindanao was hit in the body and is recuperating.
Police have yet to say if the incident had to do with the October 28 barangay elections.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/72554/villagers-flee-as-milf-units-clash-in-wake-of-deadly-ambush-in-maguindanao-town
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