Anti-terror drill. Police and military security forces led by members of the Task Force Zamboanga (TFZ) conduct a bomb detection exercise on Wednesday at the Western Mindanao Command headquarters in Upper Calarian.Suspected Al-Qaida-linked terror group ambushed members of the Philippine Army in Sulu on Thursday, killing at least nine soldiers and wounding two others.
Undetermined number of fully armed men of the Abu Sayyaf group (ASG) attacked soldiers from the 33rd Infantry Battalion (IB) on board a 6x6 military truck in crossing Maimbung town at around 7:45 a.m.
According to military sources, soldiers were on their way to the market when the bandits ambushed them.
The attack happened a day after an encounter between government troops and Abu Sayyaf bandits at Upper Sampunay in Parang town on Wednesday.
An Army soldier, three bandits were killed while five other soldiers were wounded in that incident.
Military sources believe Sulu-based Abu Sayyaf leader Radullan Sahiron alias Kumander Putol, who escaped shortly after the ambush, led the attackers.
Aside from the Abu Sayyaf members, renegade members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) were reportedly involved in the attack.
Army Lieutenant General Eugenio Cedo, chief of the Armed Forces' Western Mindanao Command, immediately launched an aggressive pursuit operation against the attackers.
Last Thursday's ambush on soldiers in Sulu was said to be the military's third major set-back since the July 10 incident in Al Barka, Basilan, where 14 marines were killed, 10 of them beheaded.
Thousands of troops were deployed to Basilan and Sulu to hunt down Moro rebels blamed for beheading soldiers, and Abu Sayyaf gunmen, which the military said have links with the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militants.
Undetermined number of fully armed men of the Abu Sayyaf group (ASG) attacked soldiers from the 33rd Infantry Battalion (IB) on board a 6x6 military truck in crossing Maimbung town at around 7:45 a.m.
According to military sources, soldiers were on their way to the market when the bandits ambushed them.
The attack happened a day after an encounter between government troops and Abu Sayyaf bandits at Upper Sampunay in Parang town on Wednesday.
An Army soldier, three bandits were killed while five other soldiers were wounded in that incident.
Military sources believe Sulu-based Abu Sayyaf leader Radullan Sahiron alias Kumander Putol, who escaped shortly after the ambush, led the attackers.
Aside from the Abu Sayyaf members, renegade members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) were reportedly involved in the attack.
Army Lieutenant General Eugenio Cedo, chief of the Armed Forces' Western Mindanao Command, immediately launched an aggressive pursuit operation against the attackers.
Last Thursday's ambush on soldiers in Sulu was said to be the military's third major set-back since the July 10 incident in Al Barka, Basilan, where 14 marines were killed, 10 of them beheaded.
Thousands of troops were deployed to Basilan and Sulu to hunt down Moro rebels blamed for beheading soldiers, and Abu Sayyaf gunmen, which the military said have links with the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militants.
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