3 killed as Abu Sayyaf members clash with MNLF fighter in Sulu

From GMA News (Feb 20): 3 killed as Abu Sayyaf members clash with MNLF fighter in Sulu

Three people were killed and one was wounded in a clash between members of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) and a Moro National Liberation Front fighter in Indanan town in Sulu on Friday afternoon.

An initial investigation showed the incident broke out when Abu Sayyaf men, led by a son of Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Sibih Pisih, shot and wounded a certain Sakur Madjang at around 5:40 p.m. in Sitio Santol, barangay Buanza.

Also, the Abu Sayyaf men burned Madjang's house.

Brig. Gen. Alan Arrojado, commander of the military's Joint Task Group Sulu, said Madjang's brother, Gabir, responded and engaged the Abu Sayyaf men in a shootout.

Gabir, an MNLF fighter who had been integrated into the Armed Forces of the Philippines under the 1996 peace agreement, was killed in the firefight.

Also killed during the 15-munute clash was one Mursid Amdanan, who was with the Madjang brothers; and the son of the Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Sibih Pisih.

Sakur is currently confined at the Sulu Provincial Hospital.

"The said incident is accordingly caused by the previous violent encounters between the MNLF and the ASG," said Arrojado.

According to him, the Abu Sayyaf men had been suspecting the Madjangs were military informants who the ASG blamed for the death of Abu Sayyaf follower Abu Quodama last Feb. 7. 

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