ZAMBOANGA CITY – Three gunmen, one of them as a village chieftain, surrendered to the military following an intensified manhunt by security forces in the Muslim province of Basilan in southern Philippines, an army commander said Thursday.
Brig. Gen. Alvin Luzon, commander of the 101st Infantry Brigade, said the trio led by Abdullah Panglias, voluntarily surrendered and handed over an automatic rifle and a pistol.
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| Photos released by the Western Mindanao Command show the surrendered suspects - Abdullah Panglias, Abzhar Panglias and Jhulbin Suntul – accused of killing two people in Lamitan City on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. |
Abdullah and his cohorts brother Abzhar Panglias and Jhulbin Suntul were accused of killing Sagon Jailun and Unnang Alasa late Monday in Balagtasan village in Lamitan City. Another suspect was captured by the police the same night during a hot pursuit operation.
Luzon said the trio was turned over to the police in Lamitan City.
The Monday’s Barangay and Sanguniang Kabataan elections in Basilan were bloody with police and military reporting a series of deadly gun attacks involving followers of rival candidates.
Police said six people, one of them a village chieftain Ibrahim Atang, were shot and hacked by attackers outside a polling precinct in a school in Basilan’s Tuburan town.
A voter, Nasra Uddin, was shot dead and another wounded when a lone gunman entered a polling precinct at the Badja Elementary School in Basilan’s Tipo-Tipo town and shot them, according to reports. A village official was also shot dead in Lamitan City. (Mindanao Examiner)
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