COTABATO CITY — A Moro villager was killed, while an Army intelligence agent was wounded in a gun attack in Radjah Buayan, Maguindanao del Sur on Sunday.
Brig. Gen. Romeo J. Macapaz, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, told reporters on Monday that the incident left Jabber Amil Ambal, a resident of Barangay Dapantis, dead.
Mr. Macapaz said Mr. Ambal and an intelligence operative of the Army’s 33rd Infantry Battalion were together at one spot in Barangay Dapantis when men riding motorcycles together came close and shot them with pistols.
Mr. Ambal died instantly from gunshot wounds sustained in the attack.
The plainclothes army intelligence operative, who was hit by bullets in his left arm, is now confined in a hospital.
The residents said the gunmen could be members of either the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, or its ally, the Dawlah Islamiya, according to Mr. Macapaz. — John Felix M. Unson