GOVERNMENT forces captured what they described as factory of improvised bombs during an assault on a stronghold of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, on Monday.

The BIFF encampment in Barangay Dasikil, according to Col. Melquiades Feliciano, commander of the Army’s 601st Infantry Brigade that spearheaded the offensive, is owned by one Mohammad Tambako, one of alleged coddlers and protectors of Filipino bomb-maker Abdul Basit Usman.

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