BIFF ambush in Maguindanao leaves 1 soldier dead, 4 wounded

From GMA News (May 12): BIFF ambush in Maguindanao leaves 1 soldier dead, 4 wounded

An ambush staged by members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in Datu Unsay town in Maguindanao left a soldier dead and four others wounded on Monday morning.

According to Col. Dickson Hermoso, spokesman of the Army 6th Infantry Division, 20 BIFF men detonated improvised bombs as a convoy carrying Col. Jener Del Rosario – commander of the 1st Mechanized Brigade – crossed a bridge in Barangay Meta at 10:30 a.m. The detonations "heavy exchanges of fire", Hermoso said.
Del Rosario was not hurt in the fighting that followed.

The 45th Infantry Battalion sent reinforcements and are pursuing the BIFF fighters, Hermoso said.

The BIFF, a breakaway group from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, has been blamed a string of attacks in Central Mindanao over the past several days, including the harassment of two Army detachments in Datu Unsay town last Tuesday.

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