SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao del Sur (PNA) – Two police officers were killed and four others were wounded in an ambush by suspected extremists in Barangay Poblacion here on Wednesday night, June 14.
Police Brig. Gen. Allan Nobleza, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao police chief, said the police officers belonging to the Provincial Police Mobile Company were heading to headquarters in neighboring Datu Hofer municipality when waylaid while passing through this town at 8 p.m.
“We are pursuing them,” Nobleza said, without the identities and affiliations of the attackers.
He withheld the victims' identities until their immediate relatives are officially informed.
The victims were rushed to the Maguindanao del Sur provincial hospital located about a kilometer from the ambush site after the incident.
Two of them later expired while undergoing treatment.
No one has claimed responsibility but the outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) operate in the hinterland areas of this town.