Government forces on Tuesday retrieved the remains of a
suspected member of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in Shariff
Saydona Mustapha, Maguindanao.
Colonel Emmanuel Salamat, commander of 1st Marine Brigade,
said the remains of an unidentified BIFF member was brought to the Marine base
for his relatives to claim.
"We retrieve the remains on Monday afternoon, we have
turned him over to a Muslim religious leader," Salamat told reporters as
the military operations continue.
He said the slain BIFF was among the 30 armed men sighted in
Barangay Pusao, a marshland in Shariff Saydona town, following intensified air
and ground assaults.
The military-led law enforcement operations entered its 19th
day Tuesday.
The operations already claimed the lives of about 120 BIFF men and
wounded 39 others while the Army suffered six deaths, including an Army captain
and has 31 wounded, according to Army Capt. Joann Petinglay, spokesperson of
Task Force Central.
The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao's (ARMM) humanitarian
arm, the Humanitarian Emergency Action and Responste Team (HEART) has recorded
24,714 internally displaced families or 123,507 individuals in 11 towns of
Maguindanao.
Salamat said the Marines also seized in Barangay Pusao an
M-79, three M-203 ammunition, wires for Improvised explosive devices, BIFF
cellphones, documents and other bomb-making materials.
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