PIKIT, North Cotabato -- Four members of the
renegade Moro rebel groups in Maguindanao and North
Cotabato were killed in the Army artillery offensive Saturday,
rebel leaders said.
The Army's 7th Infantry Battalion fired dozens of mortars
and 105 howitzers toward Barangay Kabasalan, an outskirt village of Pikit
MILF sub commander Tiple Sekak, citing information from MILF
forces near Barangay Kabasalan and Bulol, both in Pikit, said four BIFF were
killed when a 105 howitzers landed near them.
Army Colonel Noel Clement, commander of the 602nd Infantry
Brigade, who supervised the Army offensives, said the artillery fire was part
of the clearing operations of the Army after the BIFF occupied Barangay
Kabasalan.
“We would like to regain control of Barangay Kabasalan and
all other villages nearby from BIFF occupation," he told reporters.
The BIFF have fled toward the marshland leaving Kabasalan. An
Army intelligence officer said the BIFF torched more than 20 houses as they
fled toward Sultan sa Barongis, Maguindanao via one of the tributaries.
On Friday night, the BIFF set off an improvised bomb in
Barangay Kalbugan that left one MILF fighter killed.
Seven other IEDs with mobile phone as trigger mechanism were
recovered by MILF fighters and were detonated by setting them on fire.
The Army's 6th Infantry Division could not ascertain on the
number of fatalities on the BIFF side.
Mortar shelling continues as of posting.
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