MIDSAYAP, North Cotabato -- Outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic
Freedom Fighters (BIFF) attempted, but failed, to inflict injuries Wednesday
afternoon on government forces securing the borders of North Cotabato and
Maguindanao, police said Thursday.
Supt. Bernard Tayong, Midsayap town police chief, said the lawless
elements set off a powerful improvised bomb near an Army detachment of the 34th
Infantry Battalion in Sitio Tampat, Barangay Ulandang, Midsayap.
Citing intelligence information, Tayong said the BIFF members have been
harassing government forces tasked to secure rice and corn farmers residing
near the borders of Midsayap and Datu Piang in Maguindnao borders.
He said military vehicles regularly passed by the village of Ulandang
en route to its base in Sitio Tampat.
The IED was set off about five minutes after a military convoy passed
by the blast site.
The exploded ordnance was made of 60 mm mortar with mobile phone as
trigger mechanism which police said was a signature explosives of the BIFF.
Following the incident, Tayong said, augmentation troops from the 34th
IB and Midsayap PNP have been deployed in Barangay Ulandang where famers are
harvesting crops.
In the past, according to residents, harassment from BIFF occur when
farmers started harvesting rice and corn crops, demanding shares of the harvest
and threatening villagers.
Tayong assured Midsayapenios the police and the Army will continue
securing the boundary so the public can sleep well at night. (EOF/PNA) posted by Becky D. de Asis-The Redline News
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