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CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – Seven members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) were hurt in a blast while pursuing Islamic State-linked Moro extremists in Shariff Saydona Mustapha, Maguindanao on Thursday.
“Seven of them were hurt in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion,” said Major Arvin John Encinas, speaking for Western Mindanao Command, in a phone interview here Friday.
Encinas said elements of Army’s 57th Infantry Battalion and members of MILF national guard were pursuing BIFF radicals, who were believed to be behind the murder of seven MILF members earlier this month in Barangay Dasawao, when the IED exploded Thursday.
Injured were Norhamen Sandigan, Akmad Quialodi, Fajad Matabalao, Dagol Palano, Islamin Esmael, Haron Adam and Hamid Matabalao, all members of MILF Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF) under Commander George Kasim.
The wounded MILF members were rushed to a hospital in Datu Piang, Maguindanao and later moved to a bigger hospital in Midsayap, North Cotabato.
Earlier, joint Army and MILF fighters captured a BIFF camp in Sitio Dasawao 4 and found explosives and bomb-making materials.
Encinas said it was in the area where government forces found one IED on Oct. 20 and three other IEDs on October 23. All the recovered IEDs and the one that recently exploded all bore the “signature” of BIFF.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1084273
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