Security forces are continuing to hunt former Maimbung, Sulu Vice Mayor Pando Mudjasan following the law enforcement-spawned firefight the other day wherein eight policemen and a soldier were wounded.
SECURITY forces are continuing to hunt former Maimbung, Sulu Vice Mayor Pando Mudjasan following the law enforcement-spawned firefight the other day wherein eight policemen and a soldier were wounded.
The military’s chief of staff said members of the PNP’s Special Action Force who were backed by Army forces carried out law enforcement operations against Mudjasan in Maimbung, Sulu, however Mudjasan and his men fought the operating troops, triggering a nearly day-long firefight. He said Mudjasan, a former commander of the Moro National Liberation Front which has long entered into a peace agreement with the government, and his men lobbed a hand grenade that exploded and wounded the members of the operating troops.
In Cagayan de Oro, the Army’s 4th Infantry Division reported that a leader of the New People’s Army and seven other members of the communist group surrendered to soldiers in Surigao del Sur and Agusan del Norte as a result of the sustained operations against rebels in Northern Mindanao.
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