From the Sun Star-Zamboanga (Feb 25): Troops kill drug pusher, capture 2 Sayyafs in Sulu
AN ALLEGED drug pusher was killed while two suspected Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) members were captured following a shootout with government troops in Sulu on Thursday.
Brigadier General Alan Arrojado, Joint Task Group Sulu commander, said the shootout happened around 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Sitio Unique in the Barangay Busbus, Jolo.
He said the body of the slain suspected drug pusher, who is still unidentified, was brought to the Jolo police headquarters.
The two arrested suspected ASG members were identified as Al-Aziz Hadjiru Binang, 24, and Annuar Dalawis Hamid Totoh, 25.
Arrojado said Binang and Hamid are followers of Indanan-based ASG sub-leader Alden Bagade.
The shootout ensued when the policemen were fired upon while they were responding to an intelligence report about the presence of the suspects in a drug den at in the village of Busbus.
The troops recovered a pistol, a samurai sword and drug paraphernalia from the drug den.
Binang and Hamid were detained while appropriate charges are set to be filed against them.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/zamboanga/news/2016/02/25/troops-kill-drug-pusher-capture-2-sayyafs-sulu-459262
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