Gov’t troops, cops retake highway
Police and military authorities yesterday completely retook the Maguindanao-General Santos City Highway from the hands of Moro gunmen identified with Ameril Umra Kato.
Police and military authorities yesterday completely retook the Maguindanao-General Santos City Highway from the hands of Moro gunmen identified with Ameril Umra Kato.
Police and military authorities on Friday completely retook the Maguindanao-General Santos Highway from the hands of Moro gunmen identified with renegade Moro Islamic Liberation Front commander Ameril Umra Kato and reopened it to traffic.
Followers of renegade Moro rebel leader Ameril Umra Kato opened fire at civilians who had fled fighting between the Moro renegades and government soldiers, killing one evacuee.
Another civilian was killed while three other persons, including a soldier, were wounded in separate roadside bomb attacks staged by suspected armed followers of Ameril Umra Kato in Maguindanao, the military reported Thursday.
More and more civilians are being trapped in clashes between government soldiers and a group of breakaway Moro rebels, with some civilians being forced to wave white flags to indicate they were noncombatants.
More civilians are being trapped in the Maguindanao clashes between a breakaway Moro rebel group and Philippine government troops, and some of the civilians have been hoisting white flags to avoid being targeted, according to officials in the province.
Moro rebels who attacked five military outposts in Maguindanao and North Cotabato on Monday have brutally killed two off-duty soldiers and two civilians, the Philippine Army said.
COTABATO CITY, Philippines—Some 1,000 people trapped on a hill in Barangay Kabingi in Datu Unsay, Maguindanao are asking the military and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) for at least two hours of ceasefire so they can safely pass toward the evacuation center, a government official said Tuesday. This developed as the police reported [...]
Explosions rocked North Cotabato and Maguindanao in less than 48 hours since Monday while another attempt to set off a powerful bomb was foiled by alert civilians.
Avenging the loss of a comrade, Moro breakaway rebels simultaneously attacked Army detachments in seven towns in Maguindanao and North Cotabato shortly before Sunday midnight.
Ameril Umra Kato, leader of the breakaway Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, has resurfaced, at least in a video in which he is shown telling followers he wanted to put to rest claims he died from a stroke last November.
Authorities on Tuesday said they have arrested a valuable member of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters during a raid in Sarangani province.
Whether their leader is dead or seriously ill, followers of renegade Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) commander Ameril Umbra Kato were told to either surrender to the government or to return to the mainstream MILF and be part of the peace process.
