1 soldier killed, 3 others injured in BIFF attack

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COTABATO CITY – Breakaway Moro rebels on Thursday killed a soldier and injured three others by setting off an improvised explosive device in Datu Unsay, Maguindanao.

Colonel Dickson Hermoso, speaking for the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, said soldiers from the 45th Infantry Battalion were heading to their headquarters – a previously seized camp of the
Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters – when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle while passing by Barangay Maitumaig around 4 p.m.

The truck’s driver was killed while three more soldiers have been injured, he said, without providing their identities.

Hermoso said a manhunt was immediately launched against the rebels, who used a remotely-triggered IED fashioned from an 81-millimeter mortar shell.

Abu Misry Mama, BIFF spokesperson, immediately owned up the explosion and warned of more attacks in the coming days, “until the military leaves Maguindanao.”