BIFF spokesman Abu Misrie Mama
A couple and their 5-year old grandson were wounded Friday night when the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters simultaneously attacked two militia bases as hostilities between the rebels and government forces continued in the town of Pikit, North Cotabato.
The attack followed the deaths of a farmer and an elementary school student, and the wounding of another pupil, in Barangay Kabasalan during a military mortar strike against the BIFF Friday morning.
BIFF spokesman Abu Misrie Mama acknowledged that one of their fighters was killed by the shelling.
The fighting in Pikit has driven thousands of civilians from their homes and into evacuation centers.
Around 10:20 p.m., BIFF gunmen opened fire on the civilian volunteer organization bases in Barangays Selik and Dasawaw, Colonel Audie Edralin, commander of the 7th Infantry Battalion, said.
None of the militiamen were injured but Raul Sahid, 50, his wife Rosalinda, also 50, and their grandson were wounded.
Around 3 a.m. Friday, farmer Kinto Kalidasan, 40, and Ella Akmad Malading, 11, were killed when mortar barrages targeted at the BIFF struck Kabasalan.
A shell struck Kalidasan’s hut, where the farmer was sleeping.
Malading died when another shell hit a pumpboat she and other residents of the village were riding to flee the shelling.
Another girl, a 14-year old Grade 6 student, was wounded.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/99260/continuing-violence--couple-grandson-wounded-as-biff-attack-cvo-bases-in-pikit-north-cotabato
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