Lanao Sur cops arrest 2 Mautes

CAMP
SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao – Police authorities here announced the
arrest of two alleged members of the Maute terrorist group in Marawi City as
the police continued its clearing up operations with the Army in the besieged
city.
Chief
Supt. Reuben Theodore Sindac, police regional director for the Autonomous
Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), said police officers in Lumbatan, Lanao del
Sur quickly acted on a tip from civilians about the presence of two suspected
jihadist in Barangay Pantar at 4 p.m. Monday.
Sindac
identified the suspects as Sailanie Asral Mamaorong, 37 years old and Mama S.
Batara also known as Mamaorong.
Citing
report from Lanao del Sur police office, Sindac said the town police office and
the provincial police office along with elements of the 65th
Infantry Battalion arrested the two while in possession of oen improvised cal
.50 Barret rifle and one improvised M-203 rifle grenade launcher.
According
to Police Chief Inspector Leah Y. Cuyco of PRO-ARMM information office, the suspects
did not resist arrest and are now in the custody of the PNP Criminal Investigation
and Detection Group (CIDG). Sindac
commended the operating troops that lead to the arrest of two suspects believed
to be part of the more than 600 jihadist that laid siege in the Islamic City of
Marawi on May 23.
To
date, government forces are still battling remnants of the Maute and Abu Sayyaf
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