A Grade 3 student and a farmer were killed during a military mortar strike against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in Pikit, North Cotabato early Friday morning.
Another minor, a Grade 6 student, was also wounded in the incident in Barangay Kabasalan, while BIFF spokesman Abu Misri Mama acknowledged that one of their fighters was killed by the shelling.
Officials of the 6th Infantry Division, which has jurisdiction over the area, have yet to issue a statement on the incident as of this posting.
Kabasalan council member Teng Lidasan said hundreds of families fled their homes and sought shelter at the barangay elementary school after successive barrages of mortar fire rocked their village around 3 a.m.
One of the shells scored a direct hit on the house of Kinto Kalidasan, 40, killing the sleeping farmer.
Another shell struck the pumpboat (motorized canoe) the students were riding as they fled, killing Ella Akmad Malading, 11, a student of the Kabasalan Elementary School.
The wounded student, a 14-year old girl, remains under observation.
Abu Misri Mama confirmed that they were the targets of the mortar strike.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/99188/grade-3-student-farmer-killed-in-north-cotabato-mortar-strike-vs-biff
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