COTABATO CITY - Pro-Islamic State fighters killed four former Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) soldiers in an ambush in the Muslim province of Maguindanao del Sur in southern Philippines.
The MILF men were travelling in two motorcycles in Shariff Aguak town when members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters attacked them with automatic weapons. Police have launched an investigation into the ambush, but this was not the first time pro-IS fighters - including the Dawlah Islamiya - attacked rival MILF forces.
Local IS fighters have declared a total war with the MILF, which signed a peace deal with Manila in 2014, after branding the former secessionist rebel group as "apostate Moro militia" and launched random, but deadly attacks on the MILF the past years in Maguindanao, a major stronghold of the MILF headed by Ahod Ebrahim, now the Chief Minister of the Bangsamoro autonomous region.
Ebrahim has also not released any statement even in previous attacks against his forces in the South. (Mindanao Examiner)
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