COTABATO CITY – A soldier and militiaman survived a rifle grenade attack by suspected Daesh-inspired Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao on Wednesday dawn, December 2, the Army here said.
Lt. Colonel Anhouvic Atilano, speaking for the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, said that Sgt. Randy Guleng of the Army’s 1st Mechanized Brigade and Marek Sangcopan, a member of the Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit, were manning a checkpoint in Barangay Labu-Labu, Shariff Aguak, when two rifle grenades landed near them.
“One of the rifle grenades landed in one of the shanties inside the fenced para-military detachment,” Atilano said, adding that the explosive projectiles were fired from a distance.
Atilano said the two sustained minor injuries and are now in stable condition at the Camp Siongco Hospital in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao.
Atilano believed the
attackers were members of BIFF out to avenge the death of their companions in
recent military operations in Maguindanao and Region 12. (EDWIN
FERNANDEZ, PNA, MINDANAO EXPOSE’)
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