ZAIWADIN Kawilan, a field commander of the Islamist group Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), was arrested Thursday by the police and military operatives in a manhunt conducted in the southern Philippine city of Cotabato, a senior police official said Saturday.

Director Victor Deona, chief of the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, said operatives from the CIDG, Cotabato City Police Office, Philippine Army and Regional Intelligence Unit 15 of the PNP, or Philippine National Police, nabbed Kawilan at around 11:30 a.m.

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