A son of a Dawlah Islamiya (DI) terror group sub-leader was killed in an encounter with government forces in Shariff Saydona Mustapha town in this province, the military here said Thursday.
Maj. Gen. Juvymax Uy, the Army’s 6th Infantry Division (6ID) commander and concurrent chief of the military-led Joint Task Force Central (JTFC), identified the slain DI member as Adsam, son of Hassan Indal, a field leader of the terror group in Maguindanao.
Uy, quoting a report from Lt. Col. Charlie Banaag, the Army’s 6th Infantry Battalion (IB) commander, said Adsam was killed following an encounter on Wednesday night in Sitio Ulangkaya, Barangay Ganta, Shariff Saydona Mustapha.
Banaag disclosed that the firefight transpired after residents of the village alerted government forces about the presence of armed men extorting food supplies in the village.
Banaag sent his men to verify the report but they were fired upon by the armed men, triggering a brief clash that left Adsam dead.
“The timely information from the community and the intensified security operations of the JTFC against the DI and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters continues to weaken the violent extremist groups,” said Col. Pedro Balisi, commander of the Army’s 1st Mechanized Brigade, the mother unit of the 6IB.
A follow-up operation also led to the recovery of an M16 rifle, a bandoleer, 189 rounds of ammunition, four short and three long magazines for M16, war materiel, and subversive documents.
Source: Philippines News Agency
