MILF wounded in hostilities in Maguindanao town
BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES • 19:45 PM Sun Jun 21, 2020
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By:
John M. Unson
COTABATO CITY ---- Members of the Moro National Liberation Front wounded a Moro Islamic Liberation Front guerilla in a brief clash on Sunday morning in Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao.
Sulaiman Mingkot Macauyag of the MILF’s 128th Base Command sustained bullet wounds in the upper torso, now confined in a hospital.
In an initial report to the Maguindanao provincial police office, Major Julhamin Asdani of the Sultan Kudarat municipal police said Macauyag was shot and wounded by MNLF gunmen led by a certain Commander Samad.
Followers of Samad shot with assault rifles the houses in a farming enclave in Barangay Macaguiling in Sultan Kudarat, sparking a gunfight that left Macauyag wounded.
The gunmen hurriedly escaped when they sensed that responding policemen and personnel of the 2nd Marine Battalion were closing in.
The incident, which caused panic among residents of Barangay Macaguiling, was preceded by a series of deadly encounters last month between rival MILF and MNLF forces in Matalam and in Pikit, both in North Cotabato, and in interior barangays in Guindulungan, Maguindanao.
Most serious were the hostilities in Pikit, which displaced no fewer than 2,000 impoverished Moro families.
More than 50 houses were looted and set on fire by the feuding groups in one encounter after another in three barangays in Pikit, located in the first district of North Cotabato. (JUNE 21, 2020)