COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Personnel of the police’s Highway Patrol Group (HPG) foiled Friday an attempt by two men to smuggle into the city a .50 caliber machine gun. The duo, relatives Mohaddin Sabal Monico, 35, and the 28-year-old Alidatu Abdul Monico, are now clamped down in a detention facility here of the Cotabato City police. Members of the HPG-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region first flagged them down near the Delta Bridge at the border of Cotabato City and Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao only to ask them why their car is bereft of license plates. The suspects were immediately booked and turned over by the HPG-BAR to the Cotabato City Police office for prosecution. The BIFF, operating in the fashion of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, is tagged in all deadly bombings in central Mindanao since 2014.

Source: Philippine Star June 05, 2021 07:32 UTC