Sayyaf bomb component suppliers nabbed
Published on: Wednesday, May 05, 2021
By: AFP
Soldiers carry a casualty of the first of two bomb explosions in August of 2020 in front of an eatery in Barangay Walled City, Jolo, Sulu.
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Military and police operatives arrested two suppliers of bomb-making components to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in Sulu province, military officials said.Maj. Gen. William Gonzales, 11th Infantry Division commander, identified the arrested suspects as Akkang Suraili Omaron, a resident of Barangay Tulay, Jolo, and Mardan Dammang Jamasali of Barangay Latih, Patikul.
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Gonzales said the two suspects were arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay San Raymundo, Jolo, the capital town of Sulu.
“The capture of the suppliers is a significant development as the components they trade are really devastating if assembled as a bomb. These people who make bombings possible are as twisted as the bombers themselves. Fortunately, we—the police and the military—are backed by the local government and the masses in the province. All of us are hoping and optimistic that we will soon neutralise remaining Abu Sayyaf Group leaders in Sulu,” Gonzales added,” Gonzales said.
He said seized from the possession of the two suspects were marked money, ammunition of calibre .45 pistol and improvised explosive device (IED) components to include several blasting caps, assorted sizes of time fuse cord, about a kilogram of suspected ammonium nitrate, 81-millimeter (mm) mortar shell, nails, marbles, aluminium pipes, and wire switches.
He said a civilian tipped off personnel of the Army’s 15th Civil-Military Operations (15CMO) Battalion which eventually led to the buy-bust operation.
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