Monday, September 29, 2008
8 civilians hit in MILF attack
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Suspected Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) members hit eight civilians, four of them children, when they attacked an Army detachment in a remote village in Datu Piang, Maguindanao, 6:30 p.m., Friday, a top military official in central Mindanao said.
Colonel Marlou Salazar, chief of the Army's 601st brigade, said the villagers were taking their dinner when bullets allegedly fired at by MILF rebels hit them in different parts of their bodies.
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None of the victims, however, sustained serious injuries, Salazar said.
The attackers, who according to Salazar belonged to the lawless MILF group (LMG), harassed the temporary command post of the 54th Infantry Battalion at Sitio Nimao, Barangay Buayan in Datu Piang.
The attackers were positioned just 400 meters away from the military camp, he said, near the Linao creek in Barangay Buayan that is occupied mostly by Maguindanao Moros.
"But instead of hitting their targets, the attackers hit the civilians living nearby," Salazar said.
The wounded villagers were immediately rushed to a nearby hospital. (MCM)
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