Tuesday, July 13, 2010

1 soldier killed, 5 others hurt in Lanao Sur attack

GMANews.TV -

An Army enlisted personnel was killed while five others were wounded when suspected kidnappers of the son of a Commission on Elections official ambushed a military convoy in the southern Philippine province of Lanao del Sur early Tuesday morning.

A military report said the ambush occurred 5:20 a.m. when elements of the 51st Infantry Battalion were on board a vehicle securing a government circumferential road construction project in Barangay (village) Gata in Poona Bayabao town.

The report said those responsible for the attack were lawless elements under Commander Dimaporo Dimasacal alias Commander Delta, a suspect in the kidnapping of Nuraldin Yusoph, son of Elections Commissioner Elias Yusoph.

Nuraldin was seized June 20 by unidentified men who reportedly sought the nullification of certain votes in Lanao del Sur. To date, the young Yusoph is still in the hands of his abductors.

The military report said the attack could be a diversionary tactic to deceive government forces on the actual location of Nuraldin.

Maj. Gen. Romeo Lutestica, commander of the Army's 1st Infantry Division, said pursuit operations are ongoing. — RSJ/LBG, GMANews.TV

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