MAGUINDANAO, Philippines — A Marine was killed while four others were injured late Friday when a bomb hit their vehicle while en route to a secluded area to reinforce Army troops fighting Dawlah Islamiya bandits. The fatality, identified only as Private Angot, belonged to the Navy’s 5th Marine Battalion under the 1st Marine Brigade securing neighboring towns in the border of Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur provinces. The bomb went off while the vehicle carrying Angot and other Marines was motoring through a road leading to a hill in Barangay Limpongo in Datu Hoffer, Maguindanao. Units of 6th ID have been running after small ragtag groups of the outlawed Dawlah Islamiya, also known as the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, since Friday dawn. More than a hundred bandits have renounced membership with the Dawlah Islamiya in the past three years through the joint intercession of the 6th ID and elected officials in Maguindanao and North Cotabato provinces

Source: Philippine Star September 19, 2020 03:21 UTC