SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao: Government forces aborted a plan of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) to conduct bombing activities in Zamboanga City with the arrest of one of its bomb makers.

Combined forces of the Joint Task Force Zamboanga (JTFZ) and Zamboanga City Police Office launched an operation against ASG member Omar Askali, alias Ayub, along Gov. Lim Avenue in Zamboanga City at about 10:30 a.m. on Sunday.

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