Authorities here are in heightened alert after receiving
intelligence reports citing that Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF)
militants are planning to attack the North Cotabato
provincial jail at the capitol complex in Barangay Amas to spring out a
high-valued colleague.
Sr. Supt. Emmanuel Peralta, North Cotabato police director,
revealed such information after the arrest last Sept. 7 of alleged BIFF member
Jokrie Buisan during a joint military-police operation in M’lang, North Cotabato .
The raiding team was to arrest brothers Anwar Sandigan and
Guiamadel Sandigan, both noted BIFF bomb-making experts, at their safehouse in
Barangay Dungguan, M’lang, but failed to net them.
Instead, the team chanced upon Buisan together with a cache
of bomb-making materials composed of blasting caps, detonating cords, circuit
boards, small batteries, cellular phones and a fragmentation grenade, among
others.
Peralta said security forces have been doubled at the
perimeter of the complex, particularly at the site of the provincial jail.
Further, military personnel belonging to the 39th Infantry
Battalion were fielded to fortify security and provide safety to personnel of
provincial and national-line government offices situated in the complex.
Jail Supt. Peter Bungat, newly designated provincial jail
chief, has ordered a strict body search to all visitors and guests entering the
jail compound.
In 2007, heavily armed men, numbering to 50, attacked the
jail facility that led to the escape of 40 inmates.
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