MAGUINDANAO: Suspected members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Milf) hostile to a defeated mayoral candidate fired shots in Barangay Bagoenged in Pagalungan town on Thursday, causing the displacement of some 300 villagers.
Captain Tony Bulao, spokesman of the Army’s 602nd Brigade, said the gunmen, led by Bhuto Sanday of the Milf’s 108th Base Command, arrived at Barangay Bagoenged from nearby Pikit town in North Cotabato and, without warning, fired assault rifles and shoulder-fire 40mm grenades at houses of innocent ethnic Moro villagers.
“We learned from the evacuees and local officials that the real target of that harassment attack was a former barangay chairman named Kamad Andoy,” Bulao said.
Gunmen kill two, hurt boy
BAGUIO CITY: Alleged guns-for-hire on a motorcycle killed on Thursday night two Ilocos Sur residents and hurt one of the victims’ son in yet another slaying by riding-in-tandem assassins that authorities have been trying to stem in their continuing drives against private armed groups.
Winston Garcia and Mark Tayaba did not reach the hospital alive after gunmen ambushed them in Barangay Mansante in Magsingal, Ilocos Sur. Garcia’s son, Jet Lee, 12, is being treated for gunshots, authorities reported.
The three aboard a tricycle were reportedly heading home when the gunmen sprung from nowhere and fired at the victims in front of the Mansante Elementary School.
Man disrupts rail operations
MANILA: The operations of the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) Line 3 were briefly disrupted yesterday afternoon after an unidentified man went inside the rail tracks near the Cubao station in Quezon City.
In its Twitter account, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority posted a photo of the scene and said the man was found under a northbound MRT train stalled in front of the Nepa Q-Mart.
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