PIKIT, North Cotabato: Police and military authorities in North Cotabato are on heightened alert against possible retaliatory attacks by recruits of Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir alias Marwan and Abdul Basit Usman.

Army Colonel Audie Edralin, commander of the 7th Infantry Battalion based in Pikit, said soldiers have been on alert since January 25 when police commandos clashed with members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Mamasapano, Maguindanao.

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