ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Mar. 17) – Philippine troops have recovered the body of an Abu Sayyaf sub-leader and his aide who were killed in a fierce clashes Tuesday in the southern province of Sulu, the military said.
The military said the bodies of terrorist sub-leader Jul Asbi Jalmani and Mudar Hadjail were recovered by soldiers after an intense fighting in Indanan town where the Abu Sayyaf is holding hostage three members of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
“Two bodies of the Abu Sayyaf were recovered by the operating troops and have been positively identified as sub-leader Jul Asbi Jalmaani and Mudar Hadjail, his trusted man. Seven others are believed wounded or dead in the fighting,” Army Lt. Steffani Cacho, a regional military spokeswoman, told the Mindanao Examiner.
The military earlier said three soldiers were killed and 19 others wounded in the fighting after Abu Sayyaf terrorists led by Albader Parad tried to break through a military cordon in the town’s jungle.
Parad was reported killed, but the television network ABS-CBN was able to interview the terrorist commander on Tuesday. “I am alive. If I am dead I won’t be talking to you right now,” Parad said.
There were no words about the fate of the hostages. The trio was kidnapped on January 15 after inspecting a water and sanitation project at a prison facility in the town of Patikul. (Mindanao Examiner)
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