BASILAN PROVINCE – Government troops have seized more than a dozen motorized boats used by the Abu Sayyafs and Malaysian jihadists in their terror operations in the southern Filipino province of Basilan and nearby areas that included Zamboanga Peninsula, officials said Wednesday.
Officials said troops also recovered materials used in the fabrication of explosives during an operation in Hadji Mohammad Ajul.
“Law enforcement operations launched by military troops resulted to the capture of 13 watercrafts and several components of improvised explosive devices belonging to the Abu Sayyaf Group in Basilan,” said Capt. Ben June Cerbo, of the Western Mindanao Command.
He said members of the Marines Special Operations Group and Naval Special Operations Unit 6 recovered the boats while pursuing the Abu Sayyaf under Ustadz Abbas Alam and Malaysian jihadist, Mohammed Najib Bin Husein.
“The watercrafts were utilized (by the Abu Sayyafs) in distributing improvised explosive devices in Basilan and Zamboanga Peninsula,” he said.
Just recently, army troops also recovered components for improvised explosives and munitions and weapons in the village of Tuburan also in the same town.
Basilan is one of five provinces under the restive Muslim autonomous region. (Mindanao Examiner)
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