COTABATO CITY, Maguindanao: A soldier of the Army’s 34th Infantry Battalion (34IB) sustained shrapnel wounds when members of the outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) set off an improvised explosive device (IED) along a road in Barangay Meta in Datu Unsay town, early Tuesday.

Capt. Jo-Ann Petinglay, spokesperson of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division (6ID), said the BIFF rebels were trying to prevent patrolling Army troops from getting close to a village whose residents they subject to rebels’ taxation.

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