Two members of the Abu Sayyaf group were killed while a kidnap victim was rescued in an encounter between the bandits and government forces in Zamboanga City Friday, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said Saturday.
In its 6 a.m. report, the NDRRMC said the encounter occurred at 10 a.m. Friday in Sitio Dulilan in Barangay Calabasa in Curuan.
Killed in the
20-minute firefight were
Termije Ajijul and
Sitti Raja Salvin.Wounded were
Abu Sayyaf member Khair Mundos and one
PO3 Ruiz of the Philippine National Police's 84th SAC.The NDRRMC said Mundos and Ajijul Temeng headed the Abu Sayyaf group that figured in the encounter.
It added the government forces in Friday's encounter included members of the 5th Special Action Battalion (SAB), Special Action Force (SAF), Navy Special Warfare Group (SWAG), Zamboanga City Public Safety Company Light Reaction Unit (ZCPSC-LRU) and Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), Regional Public Safety Battalion 9, Regional Intelligence Division Unit 9, and Philippine Center on Transnational Crime 9.
— LBG, GMA News
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