MILF: Two MILF members wounded in three-hour encounter with militants being assisted by 6th ID

Posted to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front Website (Aug 4): Two MILF members wounded in three-hour encounter with militants being assisted by 6th ID



Kamsa Karinda of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, one of two injured in a gunfight with terrorists in Maguindanao Wednesday, is now confined in a hospital. Philstar.com/John Unson

Two MILF guerrillas wounded in a three-hour clashes with ISIS-inspired militant in Datu Saidona town in Maguindanao on August 2 are now in a hospital being assisted by the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, Camp Siongo, Datu Odin Sinsuat, maguindanao.
The wounded MILF guerillas were identified as Kamsa Karinda and Naeem Musico.

According to a report by veteran Central Mindanao-based Philstar correspondent John Unson on Thursday, ARMM Police Officials are certain the effort of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front to control the spread of terrorists in Maguindanao will boost the Mindanao peace process.

Four militants in a group claiming allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria were killed while three others were wounded in the said encounter.

Karinda and Musico were among dozens dispatched by senior MILF commanders to hunt down an ISIS-inspired group led by Esmael Abdulmalik, said the report by Unson of Philstar.

The said operation was well-coordinated with the AFP in Maguindanao.

Abdulmalik is a leader of one of three factions of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.

Major Gen. Arnel Dela Vega, commander of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, said on Thursday that they will help in the medication of wounded MILF guerrillas.

Chief Superintendent Reuben Theodore Sindac, police director for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, told The STAR via mobile phone Thursday that he is optimistic the MILF will sustain its support to Malacañang’s effort to prevent the spread of violent religious extremists (VREs) in the south.

“The gesture of the MILF is well appreciated,” Sindac said.

The hostilities on Wednesday in Barangay Pusaw erupted when gunmen led by Abdulmalik attacked MILF guerrillas out to check on the reported convergence there of VREs displaying the black ISIS flag.

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