ZAMBOANGA CITY – An Abu Sayyaf militant captured by government soldiers was fatally shot after he grabbed the firearm of one of his guards in Tawi-Tawi, one of 5 provinces under the Muslim autonomous region, officials said Tuesday.
Officials said Ustab Anji was killed on Monday in the village of Magsagaw in Panglima Sugala town while troops were on their way to the police headquarters to handover the militant.
Anji was involved in the kidnappings this year of Indonesian and Malaysian sailors in Sabah, Malaysia. He was also tagged as among those who kidnapped 21 mostly European holidaymakers also in Sabah, Malaysia in 2000 and had a P350,000 bounty on his head.
Officials said members of the Marine Battalion Landing Team-9 and the local police arrested Anji and seized from his a .45-caliber pistol and a hand grenade.
Anji’s body was handed over to the police in Tawi-Tawi.
Last month, troops also killed two notorious Abu Sayyaf militants Nixon Muktadil and his brother Brown Muktadil who were both tagged as behind cross-border kidnappings in Sabah.
The brothers were killed during a military raid on Tambulian Island off Sulu’s Pata town.
The two men were behind the kidnappings of at least 26 Indonesian and Malaysian nationals, mostly crew members of slow-moving tugboats in Sabah near the Filipino border of Tawi-Tawi. (Mindanao Examiner)
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