SULU - Philippine authorities are holding an Indonesian suicide bomber and 2 Filipino terrorists after security forces raided an Abu Sayyaf hideout Saturday in the southern province of Sulu.
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| Rezky Fantasya Rullie |
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| Military photos released to the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner show the explosive vest seized by security from an Abu Sayyaf hideout in Sulu province. |
Security officials identified the Indonesian as Rezky Fantasya Rullie and the 2 militants as Nur-Aina Alihasan, the wife Abu Sayyaf fighter Ben Yadah; and Fatima Sandra Jimlani, also the wife of another terrorist.
“Based on the report submitted by Brig. Gen William Gonzales, Rezky Fantasya Rullie, a.k.a Cici, an Indonesian national, and her comrades were apprehended by virtue of a warrant to search a house at Sitio Kuppong, Barangay San Raymundo, Jolo, Sulu issued by the Regional Trial Court,” Lt. Gen. Corleto Vinluan, Jr., chief of the Western Mindanao Command, said in a statement.
He said soldiers and police commandos involved in the capture of the trio seized an explosive vest rigged to a pair of pipe bombs.
“The operatives seized an improvised explosive device vest rigged with 2 pipe bombs and other components,” he said, adding, the trio is now being interrogated by the authorities in an effort to extract information on their terror plan.
Army Brig. Gen. William Gonzales, commander of an anti-terror task force, said his group have been pursuing the trio since the twin suicide attacks in Jolo town in August that killed and wounded dozens of people.
“We have been pursuing foreign suicide bombers in Sulu after the twin bombing in Jolo on August 24, 2020. Rullie was first in our list since we have received intelligence reports that she is going to conduct suicide bombing after the death of his husband, Andi Baso, an Indonesian foreign terrorist who was reportedly neutralized during an encounter with two of our ranger battalions on August 29, 2020,” he said.
Rullie is believed to be the daughter of the Indonesian couple who perpetrated the twin suicide bombing at Jolo Cathedral on January 27, 2019.
Gonzales said he ordered security forces to intensify the hunt for other foreign and local terrorists in the South. “We will never cease to hunt down these foreign terrorists, coddled by Mundi Sawadjaan and Radulan Sahiron," he said.
“We are assuring the Filipino people
most especially the Tausugs of Sulu that your Armed Forces in this part of our
country will never allow the foreign terrorists to sow fear and chaos in our
land,” he added. (Mindanao Examiner)
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