Police and military said fighting between warring clans in a
Maguindanao town have simmered down after joint police and military personnel
were deployed as peacekeepers.
Senior Inspector Freddie Solar, police chief of Talitay town
in Maguindanao, said armed supporters of town Mayor Muntasir Sabal and Kagi
Buisan cease fighting Sunday.
Four persons have been killed, one from the side of Buisan
and three from the group of Sabal family.
“They stopped fighting but we cannot say they will not in
the future,” Solar said, adding that both sides have relatives from Moro
Islamic Liberation Front.
“That is our problem, they were armed and they belonged to
MILF but this is not an organizational fight,” he added. Sabal was reelected
mayor as against Fahad Midtimbang who was a relative of the Buisan family.
Solar said the Buisan and Sabal family were locked in a long
standing family feud that dates back to 2013.
“Before election, a member of Buisan family was killed and
retaliatory attacks ensued,” Solar said.
Capt. Joann Petinglay, speaking for the 6th Infantry
Division, said Army personnel were also deployed in Talitay to serve as
peacekeepers and not to fight warring families due to an existing ceasefire
agreement between the government and the MILF.
About 3,000 persons, mostly women and children, have fled to
safer grounds.
“It’s quiet now in Talitay town center but evacuees refused
to return home at this time,” Solar said.
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