Government troops and civilian volunteers have recovered a police station occupied by Abu Sayyaf rebels, who flew the Islamic State for
Navy Captain Roy
Vincent Trinidad, chief of staff for the Joint Task Group Zambasulta, said the
rebel group occupied the unmanned police station in Sitio Project Site,
Barangay Tuburan Proper on May 2 and hoisted ISIS
black flags.
The rogue group
also rigged the station and a nearby telecommunication cell site with
improvised explosive devices (IEDs) before beheading worker Jakri Tarqi, he
added.
In Maguindanao province,
three soldiers were injured when some members of the terrorist group Bangsamoro
Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) detonated a roadside bomb when a Philippine
Army truck passed by a secluded portion of the national highway in Sharif Aguak
town.
The terrorist
also fired at the soldiers using assault and grenade-launching rifles.
Captain Jo-Ann
Petinglay, Army 6th Infantry Division spokesperson, said the attackers were all
adolescents who were forced to withdraw after soldiers returned fire.
He added that
troops from the Philippine Army’s 19th Special Forces Company and the Scout
Rangers reinforced civilian volunteers in retaking the police station.
“The troops also
pulled down two black flags hoisted by the Abu Sayyaf group,” Trinidad
said.
The soldiers
recovered the IEDs planted in the police station and at the cell site.
A local town
official, who requested anonymity, said the Abu Sayyaf tried to sow terror by
flying the ISIS flag and executing the
20-year-old Tarqi.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/05/10/15/govt-troops-recover-police-station-occupied-sayyaf
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