Police said the 37-year old Ustadz Abdurahman Abubakar was travelling on a motorcycle with his wife and child when the gunmen, who were tailing them, shot him from behind several times in the village of Malambuhangin in Siocon town.
The assailants fled after the shooting leaving behind Abubakar’s wife and child unscathed. The killing, which occurred late Thursday afternoon, is being investigated by the police, according to Major Helen Galvez, a regional police spokeswoman.
“The unidentified suspects shot the victim several times hitting his left shoulder and right forehead that cause his instantaneous death. The suspects hurriedly fled away to the hinterlands,” she said.
Abubakar’s family did not give any statement on the murder and no individual or group claimed responsibility for the killing. Attacks on Muslim scholars and religious leaders are in the region.
But in January, two unidentified men also attacked a local mosque, exploding a fragmentation grenade that killed 2 Islamic missionaries or Tablighi Jamaat in Zamboanga City.
Five other missionaries were wounded in the attack on Kamalhaldikan Mosque. At least 11 people were sleeping at the mosque when the attack occurred, killing Sattal Bato, 47, and Rex Habil, 46.
No individual claimed responsibility for the desecration of the mosque which occurred 3 days after a pair of Indonesian ISIS bombers blew themselves up at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral in Jolo town in Sulu province that left dozens of casualties.
“The unidentified suspects shot the victim several times hitting his left shoulder and right forehead that cause his instantaneous death. The suspects hurriedly fled away to the hinterlands,” she said.
Abubakar’s family did not give any statement on the murder and no individual or group claimed responsibility for the killing. Attacks on Muslim scholars and religious leaders are in the region.
But in January, two unidentified men also attacked a local mosque, exploding a fragmentation grenade that killed 2 Islamic missionaries or Tablighi Jamaat in Zamboanga City.
Five other missionaries were wounded in the attack on Kamalhaldikan Mosque. At least 11 people were sleeping at the mosque when the attack occurred, killing Sattal Bato, 47, and Rex Habil, 46.
No individual claimed responsibility for the desecration of the mosque which occurred 3 days after a pair of Indonesian ISIS bombers blew themselves up at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral in Jolo town in Sulu province that left dozens of casualties.
Muslim scholars, in a strong worded statement, called the attack on the mosque and the killings of the missionaries, as “devilish, irrational and inhumane act.”
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