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By Anthony Vargas, Reporter
A MORO Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) sub-commander survived an
ambush attempt late Thursday afternoon in the restive southern part
of Mindanao, Eid Kabalu, the MILF spokesman, said.
Kabalu said Adan Abdullah of the
MILF’s 106th Base command was injured after being ambushed in
Sultan Kudarat town in Sharrif Kabunsuan province.
Abdullah was aboard a pick-up
truck traveling along the highway when motorcycle-riding gunman
fired at him about 4:10 p.m., the MILF spokesman said.
Kabalu said that Abdullah
sustained gunshot wounds on the chest and on the hand and was
quickly rushed by his companions to a nearby hospital for treatment.
“Base on reports he [Abdullah]
is in stable condition and as for the motive for the shooting . . .
we still don’t know yet,” Kabalu said.
The ambush incident took place as
the government and the MILF plan to restart formal peace talks that
bogged late last year when both sides failed to come to terms on the
issue of “ancestral domain.”
The secessionist rebels want to
get 1,000 barangays in Central Mindanao but the government is only
amenable to giving them less than 700 barangays.
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