5 killed, 8 hurt as pirates attack boat in Sulu
By Ed General
Mindanao Bureau
First Posted 18:01:00 05/09/2008
JOLO, Sulu--Five people, including two children, died while eight others were wounded when pirates fired at a passenger boat sailing for Laminusa Island in Siasi town around Thursday night, police said Friday.
Supt. Danilo Bacas, spokesperson of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) police, confirmed the incident, which happened at 6:40 p.m.
Bacas said reports reaching them indicated that the passenger boat, which sailed from here, was cruising between Parang town and Tapul Island when armed men, numbering about 20, fired at it with automatic rifles.
After the incident, the armed men immediately sailed away, he said.
The list provided by the Siasi police to the Philippine Daily Inquirer only named three of the victims.
They were Jordan Baitulla, 42; Aljimar Taradji, 3; and Duldang Baitulla, 57.
Two others remain unidentified.
The wounded passengers were still being treated at the Sulu Provincial Hospital here.
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