Thursday, September 26, 2013

2 BIFF members killed in North Cotabato clash

From the Philippine News Agency (Sep 26): 2 BIFF members killed in North Cotabato clash

The Army's 602nd Infantry Brigade on Thursday announced that it has killed two members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) during a two-hour clash in M'lang, North Cotabato Thursday early morning.

It added that five members of the BIFF were wounded with no losses to the government side.

Capt. Antonio Bulao, 602nd Infantry Brigade civil-military operations officer, said that the encounter took place around 5 a.m. when their troopers encountered 40 BIFF members in Barangay Tibao.

The latter infiltrated the area using boats, he added.

This triggered a firefight which lasted until 7 a.m.

The BIFF men were led by a certain "Gani Saligan" and "Bigcog".

Bulao said that government troopers were unable to recover the BIFF casualties as the rebels carried them on withdrawal.

The clash erupted just hours after members of the 7th Infantry Battalion also figured in skirmishes with BIFF members along the Pulangi River between Pikit, North Cotabato, and Shariff Saydona Mustapha, Maguindanao.

Those skirmishes against about 60 to 70 BIFF members started 7 p.m. Wednesday and lulled for a while, before starting again around 10 p.m. and lasting until 12 a.m.

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=570027

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