From the Sun Star-Zamboanga (Aug 16): Abu Sayyaf groups clash while evading troops
MEMBERS of the Abu Sayyaf have clashed with another group of bandits while evading government forces in the hinterlands of Sulu, a top military official said Sunday.
Brigadier General Alan Arrojado, Joint Task Group Sulu commander, said the clash occurred around 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Sitio Paligue in the village of Sawaki, Indanan town.
Arrojado identified the protagonists as that of the combined group led by Jul Aksan, alias Halimaw, and Tuan Annu, a Moro National Liberation Front leader, against the joint groups of Alhabsy Misaya and Marjan Asiri.
Arrojado said the father-in-law of Marjan was wounded during the firefight, which lasted for about 30 minutes.
Arrojado, quoting a report from his field officers, said the misencounter between the groups of Abu Sayyaf bandits was the result of pressure from ongoing law enforcement operations in the towns of Indanan and Parang.
The bandits, he said, were forced to regularly move from one place to the other because of the operations.
He said joint groups of Misaya and Asiri were monitored to be moving around Barangay Sawaki, Indanan municipality, while another group of bandits was reportedly consolidating its members in the village of Silangkan, Parang town.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/zamboanga/local-news/2015/08/16/abu-sayyaf-groups-clash-while-evading-troops-424980
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