COTABATO CITY --- An Army private was killed while two others were hurt when Abu Sayyaf gunmen shot their vehicle with assault rifles late Tuesday in Barangay Tugas in Patikul town in Sulu.
Reports reaching the government center here of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao said the slain soldier, identified only as Private Tawasil, possibly a Tausug, belonged to the Army’s 45th Infantry Battalion.
Sulu is a component-province of BARMM, which also covers Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi.