BASILAN - Security forces have recovered materials in the manufacture of improvised explosives from a man who engaged policemen and army soldiers in a gunfight in the southern Philippine province of Basilan.
Police, backed by infantrymen, were to serve a search warrant Thursday evening, April 20, on the house owned by Ganim Muksin in the village of Maganda in Lamitan City, when he opened fire on security forces sparking a brief firefight that eventually killed him. There was no report of casualties on the government side.
Security forces searched the house and recovered a container filled with ANFO or ammonium nitrate fuel oil, blasting caps, igniter, black powder or gunpowder, electric switch, and a container full of iron nails. Muksin's .45-caliber pistol was also recovered by policemen.
Officials did not say whether the slain man was a member of any radical or rebel group, but the Muslim province is a lair of Abu Sayyaf and Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Moro National Liberation Front.
On Wednesday, April 19, a lone gunman also shot and wounded an army soldier, Private Jimmy Gaffud, in Lamitan City. The 25-year old soldier was on a motorcycle driven by Sergeant Ronie Ubalde, 36, when the gunman attacked them. Ubalde was unhurt in the shooting. The unidentified assailant fled after the ambush.
No individual or group claimed responsibility for the shooting and officials would not say or speculate whether the attack was connected to Muksin or not. (Mindanao Examiner)
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