From GMA News (Oct 25): Residents return home after deadly clashes in Maguindanao
Residents who were displaced due to recent encounters between government forces and members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in Central Mindanao have returned to their homes.
In a phone interview with GMA News Online, Col. Dickson Hermoso, spokesman for the Army's 6th Infantry Division said the families who were affected have returned home a day after the clashes, and that security forces have set up patrol bases in barangays Katiko and Bagumbayan.
"May mga nagpa-patrol na rin 24/7 sa areas na 'yan, he added.
At least four people were killed in firefights that erupted last Wednesday and Thursday.
In the first incident, two soldiers were shot dead while guarding a hospital in Datu Hoffer town in Maguindanao. Hermoso was quoted as saying at least seven suspected BIFF members were behind Wednesday evening's incident.
On the other hand, Thursday's incident that involved troops of the 33rd Infantry Battalion and the BIFF, was sparked by an attack on a militia detachment in Barangay Katiko in President Quirino town in Sultan Kudarat. In that incident, a barangay peacekeeper and a BIFF member were killed.
The BIFF is a breakaway group of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which is engaged in peace efforts with the Philippine government.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/385167/news/regions/residents-return-home-after-deadly-clashes-in-maguindanao
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