A suspected
big-time drug lord, long wanted by authorities, was killed during a 10-minute
gunfight with government authorities at dawn Wednesday during a buy-bust
operation at their hideout in Sitio Canas, Barangay Calangcanas,
Maluso town, Basilan.
Major Felimon
Tan, Western Mindanao Command Information Officer, identified the slain drug
lord as Abubakar Mohammad Alias Abubakar Asa.
Eight of
Mohammad’s followers, whom authorities declined to name, were wounded and later
apprehended.
Tan told media
the soldiers initially engaged the lawless elements in a running gun battle at
around 4:30 a.m. which later resulted in the killing of Mohammad.
The government
operatives, Tan said, were able to seize two M-16 Armalite rifles, one M-203
grenade launcher, two .22 caliber pistol, one rifle grenade, several rounds of
ammunition, some 50 sachets of methamphetamine hydrochloride,
locally called shabu, and other prohibited drug paraphernalia.
Mohammad’s men
were later turned over to Maluso Municipal Police Station for the filing of
appropriate charges against them, Tan added.
According to Tan,
the buy-bust operation, carried out after a week-long surveillance, was
jointly undertaken by elements of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency,
Maluso Police Station, Marine Battalion Landing Team-11 and 4th Special Forces
Battalion.
Police reports
from Basilan said Mohammad, together with his men, virtually controls illegal
drug pushing and distribution in several municipalities of the island
province.
Some of their alleged
clients are high school and college students.
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