MAGUINDANAO, Philippines - Members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) on Tuesday killed a policeman and wounded another in Datu Saudi town in Maguindanao, the fourth attack in the province in just three weeks.
The slain Police Officer 1 (P01) Habib Narciso and his companion, P01 Abdullah Hashim, were riding a tricycle on their way to the town proper of Datu Saudi from nearby Salibo municipality, also in Maguindanao, when members of the BIFF riding separate motorcycles attacked from behind.
The badly wounded Hashim, who sustained gunshot wounds in different parts of his body, is now confined at the Maguindanao Provincial Hospital in Maguindanao’s Sharif Aguak town, about eight kilometers away.
Senior Inspector Solaiman Bakal, chief of the Datu Saudi municipal police, said Narciso was pronounced dead on arrival by attending physicians at the same hospital, where he and Hashim were rushed by responding barangay officials and community watchmen.
Bakal said investigators recovered from the crime scene spent shells of handguns the bandits used in the attack.
“It was a typical `liquidation style’ attack. The suspects were riding motorcycles. They sped away after they shot the victims with pistols,” Bakal said.
BIFF bandits killed last week two unarmed members of an Army contingent rebuilding classrooms at the Datu Unsay Central School in Barangay Meta Datu Unsay, also in the second district of Maguindanao.
The soldiers, riding a motorcycle together, were on their way to the project site from an Army camp two kilometers away, carrying carpentry tools when bandits flagged them down and opened fire with assault rifles.
The incident was preceded by the fatal ambush by BIFF gunmen of a member of the Army’s 2nd Mechanized Company, who was out on a marketing mission, in Barangay Magaslong in Datu Piang.
The ambush incident in Datu Piang happened just five days after BIFF bandits shot with assault rifles a Toyota car while passing through a highway in Datu Salibo town, killing its two passengers on the spot.
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