{"id":163640,"date":"2018-05-14T03:08:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T07:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=163640"},"modified":"2018-05-14T03:08:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T07:08:29","slug":"10-abu-sayyaf-bandits-killed-in-sulu-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/14\/10-abu-sayyaf-bandits-killed-in-sulu-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Abu Sayyaf bandits killed in Sulu clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_163641\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163641\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sulu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-163641\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sulu.png\" alt=\"Twelve people, including 10 Abu Sayyaf bandits and two soldiers, were killed while 14 others wounded in an hour-long firefight early Sunday in the province of Sulu, a top military official disclosed Monday. (PNA photo)\" width=\"360\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sulu.png 360w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sulu-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-163641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twelve people, including 10 Abu Sayyaf bandits and two soldiers, were killed while 14 others wounded in an hour-long firefight early Sunday in the province of Sulu, a top military official disclosed Monday. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ZAMBOANGA CITY\u00a0&#8212; Twelve people, including 10 Abu Sayyaf bandits and two soldiers, were killed while 14 others wounded in an hour-long firefight early Sunday in the province of Sulu, a top military official disclosed Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Brig. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, Joint Task Force Sulu commander, disclosed the firefight broke out around 6:15 a.m. Sunday in Sitio Kan Alas, Barangay Tanum, Patikul municipality.<\/p>\n<p>Sobejana said the troops were on security operations aimed to rescue the kidnap victims when they clashed with a combined group of Abu Sayyaf bandits.<\/p>\n<p>Sobejana said the bandits that figured in the firefight were followers of Abu Sayyaf sub-leaders Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, Idang Susukan, Injam Yadah, and Ben Tattoh.<\/p>\n<p>He said the firefight lasted for about one hour after which the Abu Sayyaf bandits fled to different directions.<\/p>\n<p>He said four of the 10 slain Abu Sayyaf bandits were positively identified as Amah Talah, Taha Sawadjaan (the younger brother of Hatib), Long Abraham, and a certain Abu Red.<\/p>\n<p>He said two of the 14 wounded were Abu Sayyaf members, namely, Ben Quirino alias Abu Ben Tatto and Adzren Sawadjaan.<\/p>\n<p>Sobejana did not identify the two slain and 12 wounded soldiers except in saying they belong to the Army\u2019s 5th Scout Ranger Battalion.<\/p>\n<p>He said the troops have recovered from the clash site one M-16 \u201cBaby Armalite\u201d rifle, bomb-making components including canisters of ammonium nitrate, cellular phones, batteries and electronic mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>The Sulu-based Abu Sayyaf bandits are still holding captives 12 hostages, including five foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>The hostages included three Indonesians, one Vietnamese, one Dutch and seven Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will sustain our efforts until the last kidnap victim is rescued and the ASG (Abu Sayyaf Group) is neutralized,\u201d Sobejana said.<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZAMBOANGA CITY\u00a0&#8212; Twelve people, including 10 Abu Sayyaf bandits and two soldiers, were killed while 14 others wounded in an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":163641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[50890,16051],"class_list":["post-163640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-abu-sayyaf-bandits","tag-sulu-clash","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}