By Ali Macabalang COTABATO CITY – A bloody “rido”, clannish feud, has erupted anew between two Moro families in villages bordering Maguindanao and North Cotabato that left six residents, including some women and a minor, wounded after a grenade was fired at a group of persons in Pagalunhan, Maguindanao over the weekend. Reported as wounded were Edres, 51; Zahra, 47; Sipaw, 11; and Mansur, 5 – all surnamed Lumambas; 20-year old Maikel Kadil; and Nasrudin Biya, 36. They were all residents of Barangay Bagoenged in Pagalungan, Maguindanao, according to a Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) official of the village. The victims were wounded in what initially looked like a mortar shelling last Saturday night. The local SK noted in its online post that the camp of Barangay Chairperson Benjamin Mantol of Talitay, Pikit, North Cotabato has been at odds with the group of former Bagoenged barangay chairpersons Mohammad Andoy of Pagalungan, Maguindanao. “Matagal na ang rido ng dalawang kampo na yan,” a lady worker at the Pangalungan municipal government told The Manila Bulletin, referring to the Mantol and Andoy families. She described the Mantol-Andoy clannish feud as an “intramural within the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces-Moro Islamic Liberation Front (BIAF-MILF),” saying the Andoy family was also “associated” with the former revolutionary front-turned government partner in the advent of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Mantol’s father Butch is said to be allied with Pagalungan Mayor Salik Mamasabulod, while Andoy is a former president of the town’s federation of barangay chairpersons who ran but lost to the incumbent mayor in the 2019 mayoral race, other sources privy to the warring families said. BARMM Executive Secretary Abdulraof Macacua said on Monday night said he has sent emissaries to investigate and settle the dispute. Macacua, who is concurrent BIAF-MILF chief-of-staff, said the BARMM leadership would provide medical and relief assistance to the wounded victims and their families He clarified that the incident did not involve a mortar shelling but a grenade launcher. Prior to the recurrence of the Mantol-Andoy rido, BARMM officials had made an arrangement with Maguindanao Governor Mariam Sangki-Mangudadatu for an amicable settlement of the feud. But the advent of the coronavirus (CPVID-19) pandemic requiring emergency measures has overtaken the planned settlement. Meantime, Macacua said, BARMM Chief Minister Ahdo “Hadji Murad” Ebrahim was waiting for result of the field probe conducted by emissaries led by Zainudin Malang of the Bangsamoro Human Rights Commission as a “basis” for their judicial sanction on the two families. Ebrahim, who also chairs the MILF Central Committee, wanted the BARMM-Maguindanao joint efforts carried out first before he would render judgment, Macacua said.