2 terrorists slain in clashes

Posted to the Mindanao Examiner (Dec 2, 2020): 2 terrorists slain in clashes

PAGADIAN CITY – Police killed a member of the pro-ISIS group Abu Sayyaf following a clash early Wednesday in the southern province of Zamboanga del Norte, officials said, adding the fighting occurred a day after a terrorist was also killed in Cotabato City.

Brigadier General Jonel Estomo said policemen were trying to arrest Jupuri Dais in his hideout on a village in Sibuco town when he opened fire on security forces, sparking a gun battle that eventually killed the militant.

Estomo, head of the police anti-kidnapping group, said the slain militant was a former member of the Moro Islamic Liberation and involved in many ransom kidnappings in the South.

“Dais was also being sought by AKG for his alleged involvement in a series of kidnapping incidents in Mindanao, particularly the kidnapping of Martina Yee in 2016, Duterte couple in 2017, and Roda couple and Javier Family in 2018,” he said.

Estomo was referring to Yee, a gasoline station owner in Zamboanga del Norte’s Sirawai town. And the Duterte couple - Jose and Jessica – who were kidnapped in Siocon town, also in Zamboanga del Norte. And also Rufo Roda and his wife Jessica, kidnapped in the province’s Sirawai town.

He said Dais was in Sibuco town to kidnap a project engineer and contractor who is a native of Zamboanga.

Police commandos also killed Abraham Abdulrahman, a member of the Dawlah Islamiya who was linked to a deadly bombing in Cotabato’s South Seas Mall in December 2018 that killed and wounded dozens of innocent civilians.

Abdulrahman was cornered in his hideout in the village of Bagua 2 where commandos tracked him down. Instead of surrendering, Abdulrahman exchanged gunfire with the police forces until he was fatally shot.

His wife Jasmiyah, who was with him during the fighting, managed to escape. The commandos recovered one 60mm mortar and components in the manufacture of improvised explosives from the hideout. (Zamboanga Post and Mindanao Examiner)

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