Government forces pursuing the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
brigands have arrested two people and recovered an ISIS
flag, bomb-making components and other materials at an harbor site of the ASG
in Sulu.
Brig. Gen. Alan Arrojado, Joint Task Group Sulu commander,
said the harbor site was discovered while the troops from the Army’s 35th
Infantry Battalion (IB) Friday morning in Sitio Pangi, Barangay Latih, Patikul.
Arrojado identified those arrested at the ASG harbor site as
Dakang Jomala, 58 and Rogpin Samlani Lim, 21, who are from Barangays Latih and
Tulay, Patikul, respectively.
Arrojado said they were taken to the headquarters of the
Army’s 35th IB for investigation and later turned over to the custody of Latih
Barangay Chairwoman Lorna Albani for proper disposition.
Arrojado said the troops also recovered from the ASG harbor
site two motorcycles; three jungle packs; four hammocks; two ponchos; one solar
panel; two water containers; and, subversive documents aside from the ISIS flag
and bomb-making materials.
He said the harbor site was discovered while the troops were
pursuing the group of Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan.
Sawadjaan’s group attacked around 9:30 a.m. Friday the
residence of Abdukahal Umadjadi, the barangay chairman of Bungkaung, Patikul
that triggered a 15-minute firefight.
The ASG brigands fled after the troops pounded them with
mortar rounds.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=826726
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