ON THE RUN. An abandoned lair of the Islamic State-inspired combatants of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in the tri-borders of Ampatuan, Shariff Aguak, and Datu Hoffer towns in Maguindanao following military operations on Friday (March 13, 2020). Soldiers also found three dead bodies of BIFF extremists in the lair and a homemade bomb (inset) fashioned from a manual metal water pump. (Photo courtesy of 601Bde)
CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – The military here announced Saturday the discovery of three cadavers of Islamic State-inspired terrorists in the mountains of Ampatuan, Maguindanao.
Col. Jose Narciso, commander of the Army’s 601st Infantry Brigade, said soldiers conducting clearing operations found the remains of three members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in Barangay Salman, Ampatuan town at 9:20 a.m. Friday.
“This is how heartless the terrorists are. They just leave their slain comrades behind,” Narciso said.
Also recovered in the area were one anti-personnel mine and their personal belongings.
Since March 1, the military has launched air and ground assaults against the BIFF in the mountains of the adjoining towns of Ampatuan, Shariff Aguak, and Datu Hoffer in the province and Joint Task Force Central.
“It was in this area that the BIFF had encampments and planned to launch attacks against military installations from the high grounds,” Maj. Gen. Diosdado Carreon, commander of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, said in a separate interview here.
After intelligence agents confirmed the presence of the BIFF in the Ampatuan-Shariff Aguak-Datu Hofer border, military artillery and airstrikes were conducted.
So far four soldiers and 17 BIFF members have died in the operations, including the three bodies found Friday. Six soldiers were also injured in separate landmine explosions.
Government forces recovered high explosives manufactured by the BIFF in their abandoned lairs in the area during the height of the clashes.
Carreon reminded soldiers of the brigade to remain on alert for possible retaliatory attacks from the terrorists.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1096617
Col. Jose Narciso, commander of the Army’s 601st Infantry Brigade, said soldiers conducting clearing operations found the remains of three members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in Barangay Salman, Ampatuan town at 9:20 a.m. Friday.
“This is how heartless the terrorists are. They just leave their slain comrades behind,” Narciso said.
Also recovered in the area were one anti-personnel mine and their personal belongings.
Since March 1, the military has launched air and ground assaults against the BIFF in the mountains of the adjoining towns of Ampatuan, Shariff Aguak, and Datu Hoffer in the province and Joint Task Force Central.
“It was in this area that the BIFF had encampments and planned to launch attacks against military installations from the high grounds,” Maj. Gen. Diosdado Carreon, commander of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, said in a separate interview here.
After intelligence agents confirmed the presence of the BIFF in the Ampatuan-Shariff Aguak-Datu Hofer border, military artillery and airstrikes were conducted.
So far four soldiers and 17 BIFF members have died in the operations, including the three bodies found Friday. Six soldiers were also injured in separate landmine explosions.
Government forces recovered high explosives manufactured by the BIFF in their abandoned lairs in the area during the height of the clashes.
Carreon reminded soldiers of the brigade to remain on alert for possible retaliatory attacks from the terrorists.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1096617
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