Google map of Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao.
Police and military personnel are in pursuit of two gunmen who shot dead an Army soldier and wounded a bystander during an ambush in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao on Monday.
In a report, Col. Arnold Santiago, Maguindanao police chief, identified the victim as Staff Sgt. Bien Zamora Mendoza, 42, of the 61st Reconnaissance Company under the Army’s 6th Infantry Division (ID) based in the province.
Santiago also identified the wounded bystander as Abohair Royod Kusain, 38, a local motorcycle mechanic.
Mendoza's vehicle was traversing the section of the highway in Barangay Crossing Simuay, Sultan Kudarat shortly before 10 a.m. when tailed and fired upon by the gunmen onboard a motorcycle.
“Witnesses said the perpetrators sped off after the incident, leaving the bloodied Mendoza sprawling on the pavement,” Santiago said, adding that the victim, who was unarmed, died on the spot.
Initial police investigation said that Mendoza had earlier secured a weekend pass from his superiors for a short visit to his family in Pigcawayan, North Cotabato, and was on his way back to the 6ID camp in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao when ambushed.
Hit by a wayward bullet was Kusain who was near the road at the time of the incident. He is currently being treated at a hospital.
Both the police and military investigators are eyeing a hit squad of the Islamic State-linked Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters as possible perpetrators of the attack.
More than a dozen off-duty motorcycle-riding soldiers were killed in a rash of attacks in this city and the nearby towns of Sultan Kudarat and Datu Odin Sinsuat over the past two years.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1105333
In a report, Col. Arnold Santiago, Maguindanao police chief, identified the victim as Staff Sgt. Bien Zamora Mendoza, 42, of the 61st Reconnaissance Company under the Army’s 6th Infantry Division (ID) based in the province.
Santiago also identified the wounded bystander as Abohair Royod Kusain, 38, a local motorcycle mechanic.
Mendoza's vehicle was traversing the section of the highway in Barangay Crossing Simuay, Sultan Kudarat shortly before 10 a.m. when tailed and fired upon by the gunmen onboard a motorcycle.
“Witnesses said the perpetrators sped off after the incident, leaving the bloodied Mendoza sprawling on the pavement,” Santiago said, adding that the victim, who was unarmed, died on the spot.
Initial police investigation said that Mendoza had earlier secured a weekend pass from his superiors for a short visit to his family in Pigcawayan, North Cotabato, and was on his way back to the 6ID camp in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao when ambushed.
Hit by a wayward bullet was Kusain who was near the road at the time of the incident. He is currently being treated at a hospital.
Both the police and military investigators are eyeing a hit squad of the Islamic State-linked Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters as possible perpetrators of the attack.
More than a dozen off-duty motorcycle-riding soldiers were killed in a rash of attacks in this city and the nearby towns of Sultan Kudarat and Datu Odin Sinsuat over the past two years.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1105333
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