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(Eagle News) – The Philippine military prevented a plan of foreign terrorists to stage a suicide bombing in Jolo, Sulu on Tuesday, Nov. 5, with the killing of three suicide bombers, two of them foreign terrorists, in Indanan town. In a statement, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said that terrorists – two foreigners and a local Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) member — were “neutralized” in “a military operation intended to apprehend foreign terrorists […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday conferred the Order of Lapu-Lapu, Rank of Kalasag, to one of three army soldiers killed in a suicide bombing of a military camp in Indanan, Sulu last Friday. The posthumous award to the late Cpl. Richard Macabadbad was given by President Duterte when he visited his wake at the Libingan ng mga Bayani Mortuary in Fort Bonifacio where he paid his last respects. Duterte arrived at […]
(Eagle News) – Five people, including three army soldiers, were killed while nine persons were injured after two suicide bombers entered the Army’s 1st Brigade Combat Team headquarters in Indanan, Sulu, a police report said. The incident happened in Sitio Tanjung, Bgy Kajatian, Indanan, Sulu past 12 noon on Friday, June 28, where the two suicide bombers also died. The army soldiers who were killed were identified as Pfc Dominique C. Inte, Pfc Recarte […]
(Eagle News) — A municipal councilor of Jolo has been kidnapped by members of the Abu Sayyaf, the military said on Wednesday. A report said the abduction of a certain Zed Tan was carried out around 6 p.m. on Sept. 17, at the boundary of Barangays Timbangan and Tagbak in Indanan, Sulu. The military said the abductors, an undetermined number of ASG members, were riding a red vehicle. After forcibly taking Tan, they proceeded in […]
INDANAN, Philippines (AFP) – A freed Norwegian hostage said he was “lucky to be alive” Sunday, after being kidnapped by Islamic militants and held in the southern Philippine jungle for more than a year. Kjartan Sekkingstad appeared gaunt and frail as he was handed over to a government envoy along with three Indonesian seamen who had been held captive with him. “I am so very happy and lucky to be alive,” Sekkingstad, heavily bearded […]
