ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Nov. 24, 2008) – Suspected Abu Sayyaf militants detonated a roadside bomb on Monday, wounding four Filipino marines in the southern Philippine island of Sulu, officials said.
General Mohammad Dolorfino, chief of the Philippines Marines, said the soldiers were on board a truck and passing through the village of Bangkal in Patikul town when the explosion occurred.
“Four of my marines are wounded in the attack, believed carried out by the Abu Sayyaf,” he told the Mindanao Examiner.
He said the bomb was placed on a pile of garbage on the side of the road and detonated as the M35 truck passed. “Soldiers recovered 50 meters of electrical wire and this suggested that the perpetrators had detonated the explosive as the truck was passing by,” he said.
Dolorfino did not say how many soldiers were on the truck, but they were heading to a marine detachment near Patikul tow. The soldiers came from a marine base in Buhanginan village in Patikul town, where US troops are deployed.
General Mohammad Dolorfino, chief of the Philippines Marines, said the soldiers were on board a truck and passing through the village of Bangkal in Patikul town when the explosion occurred.
“Four of my marines are wounded in the attack, believed carried out by the Abu Sayyaf,” he told the Mindanao Examiner.
He said the bomb was placed on a pile of garbage on the side of the road and detonated as the M35 truck passed. “Soldiers recovered 50 meters of electrical wire and this suggested that the perpetrators had detonated the explosive as the truck was passing by,” he said.
Dolorfino did not say how many soldiers were on the truck, but they were heading to a marine detachment near Patikul tow. The soldiers came from a marine base in Buhanginan village in Patikul town, where US troops are deployed.
Abu Sayyaf militants in August also ambushed a Philippine and US military convoy in Sulu, killing four Filipino soldiers and wounded ten more in the village of Bonbon in Patikul town.
The incident was also not reported to the local media, but the Guam Army National Guard released a brief statement confirming that one of its servicemen was unharmed following an attack on his unit in Sulu.
The US soldier was not identified, but the Guam Army National Guard said the serviceman is attached to a platoon with the 294th Infantry Regiment deployed in May in Sulu to aide in the ongoing conflict there.
The Philippine military and the US Embassy in Manila insisted no US soldiers were in the attacked convoy.
American troops are training and assisting local soldiers in defeating terrorism in the southern Philippines on the request of the Philippine government. Earlier this month, Filipino soldiers also captured an Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Sakirin Andalan Sali and killed another militant, Faidar Hadjadi, in a firefight in Sulu. (Mindanao Examiner)
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