Cherry Mae Velasco sat quietly outside her grandmother’s house in Barangay 23 Gahub here. A faint smile was plastered on her face while she listened to her younger cousins exchange pleasantries.
All eight Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) guerrillas killed in a clash with Abu Sayyaf bandits on Jolo island were beheaded.
The death toll in the fighting between Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) forces and Abu Sayyaf bandits in Patikul, Sulu, has reached 20, a police official said Monday.
Three communist rebels were killed while three soldiers were injured in a clash in Tigbao, Zamboanga del Sur around 2:45 p.m. Wednesday, a report reaching the military’s Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) based here, said.
The sister of a tribal leader whose wife and two children were killed in a military operation last Thursday, said a “pangayaw” (tribal war) could erupt due to the killings.
A suspected New People’s Army rebel was killed while a soldier was wounded in a clash in Arakan, North Cotabato, early morning Thursday, the military said.
