Armed jihadists stormed a provincial jail late Friday and freed 8 local terrorists, including three women, who were recently captured transporting explosives in Lanao del Sur in the Muslim autonomous region in southern
The raiders, believed to be members of the Khilafah Islamiya
Movement, fled in several vehicles after the daring attack on the jail in Marawi City
More than a dozen other prisoners took advantage of the
attack and also bolted jail near an army base. Jail officials were not
immediate available to shed light on the escape of the prisoners.
Security forces captured the terrorists who are members of a
jihadist group operating in Lanao del Sur tagged as behind the series of
terrorism. Officials said army soldiers and policemen intercepted the group
while transporting explosives in a van in the village of Nanagun
Troops seized from them two pipe bombs, two fragmentation
grenades, one improvised explosive assembled from an 81mm mortar, two
.45-caliber pistols and electronic triggering devices.
Officials said those arrested also gave out different names
to mislead authorities, but army and police interrogators later found out that
all those intercepted are members and relatives of Abdullah Maute, who founded
the Dawlah Islamiya or “Islamic State” in southern Philippines
Interrogation reports revealed the gang was plotting to bomb
civilian targets in the volatile region, according to the military’s Western
Mindanao Command.
Just recently, security forces killed 3 members of another
jihadist group called Ansar Al-Khilafah Philippines (AKP) in Daliao
village in nearby Sarangani’s Maasim town and troops recovered improvised
explosives from the slain militants. Both the AKP and Maute group pledged
allegiance with the Islamic State or Iraq
and Syria
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