Ismail said the militants have moved on to “certain areas”. — File picLAHAD DATU, March 6 ― Despite pounding a village here with airstrikes yesterday and sending in five battalions of soldiers, authorities said today that they have yet to recover any bodies of Filipino militants.
But Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar said today that one Sulu gunman was shot dead early this morning in a brief gunfire exchange between local security forces and the 200-strong followers of the Sulu sultanate.
“The intruders are moving to certain areas,” said Ismail at a press conference here today, but declined to specify.
“The mopping and searching operation is still going on... We are moving cautiously,” he added.
Self-proclaimed Sulu “princess” Jacel Kiram was reported by Philippine media this morning as saying that Sulu militant leader Agbimuddin Kiram and his group have survived yesterday’s aerial assault and search operations.
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