ZAMBOANGA CITY – Marines killed a notorious gang leader allied with the communist rebel group New People’s Army in a clash Wednesday in the southern Philippines, officials said.
Marine Captain Maria Rowena Muyuela, a spokeswoman for the Western Mindanao Command, said troops killed Ibrahim Dayao in the village of Baluan in Sultan Kudarat’s Palimbang town. She said the fighting only lasted 5 minutes.
She said troops also recovered from the area two automatic rifles, a grenade launcher and munitions and other personal belongings of the slain gang leader known in the province as King Cobra.
Muyuela said Dayao was also behind last month’s killing of a farmer in the province. “There is an ongoing operation to capture other members of Cobra’s gang which is allied with the NPA,” she told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.
The NPA has been waging a separatist war for many decades now and has been linked by the military to many attacks in the countryside. (Mindanao Examiner)
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