ZAMBOANGA CITY – Philippine authorities are holding an Abu Sayyaf rebel implicated in the series of killings in the southern province of Sulu, officials said on Tuesday.
Officials said Junni Jumala is currently being interrogated following his capture Monday afternoon in the village of Umangay in Patikul town. Police also seized a gun and ammunition from Jumala, who was tagged as among those who ambushed the town’s deputy mayor Jun Tarsum last month.
Jumala, who has a string of criminal cases against him, was also implicated in the killings of soldiers and civilians in the towns of Patikul and Jolo, and is one of those being hunted by authorities in connection to ransom kidnappings in Sulu, one of five provinces under the Muslim autonomous region.
His capture, officials claimed, was due to the information provided by the locals to authorities, which occurred on the same day that soldiers clashed with a band of Abu Sayyaf gunmen in the neighboring village of Liang that left one rebel dead.
The mayor of Patikul, Kabir Hayudini, did not give any statement on Jumala’s capture and security officials provided no other interrogation details on the rebel, but his group is still holding several foreign and Filipino hostages in Sulu’s hinterlands where military operation is going on to rescue the captives, including 2 Canadians and a Norwegian man kidnapped last year in Davao del Norte province in Mindanao. (Mindanao Examiner)
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