COTABATO CITY, Philippines — State agents seized P1.6 million worth of shabu from three large-scale drug traffickers in an entrapment operation Friday in North Cotabato province. One of the three men, Mohidin Mahmod, was shot dead by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency for refusing to yield. He and companions Sidik Tugan and Nasrudin Tugan were entrapped in Barangay Bual in Midsayap, North Cotabato by combined PDEA agents from Region 12 and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. Besides Shabu, PDEA personnel also recovered from them a Suzuki Raider motorcycle without a license plate and the pistol of the slain Mahmod. The PDEA-BARMM entrapment operation in Buluan was assisted by members of the municipal police and the Army’s 40th Infantry Battalion.

Source: Philippine Star July 18, 2020 04:52 UTC