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By John Felix Unson
Army helps 2 Tawi-Tawi frontliners hurt in gun attack

COTABATO CITY --- The Bangsamoro government is grateful to the Philippine Army for its prompt evacuation to Zamboanga City for medication of two anti-COVID-19 frontliners hurt in a gun attack in Tawi-Tawi this week.

Lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo, local government minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said Thursday BARMM Chief Minister Ahod Ebrahim also wants closure to the incident that left social workers Niezel Ladjauddin Asakil and Kevin Pon badly wounded.

They are both employees of BARMM’s Ministry of Social Services and Development, or MSSD.

“The BARMM government is thankful to the commanding general of the Philippine Army for working out the immediate transport of the victims to Zamboanga City for confinement in a hospital there,” Sinarimbo said.

Sinarimbo was referring to Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, who had served as commander of the 6th Infantry Division in Maguindanao and Western Mindanao Command chief before he got to the helm of the Philippine Army early this year.

“He immediately ordered the airlift to Zamboanga City of the two wounded MSSD employees using military air assets. To him the BARMM is grateful,” said Sinarimbo, also spokesperson of the Bangsamoro regional government.

Initial police reports reaching the Bangsamoro regional capitol in Cotabato City stated that the duo were on their way home from an official assignment in Panglima Sugala town in Tawi-Tawi when they were attacked by gunmen somewhere in Barangay Lapid-Lapid in Bongao.

"Acts of lawlessness and violence directed against social workers are unacceptable, outrageous, and counterproductive to the pursuit of peace and justice in the Bangsamoro Region," the ministry also said.

Bongao is the capital town of Tawi-Tawi, a component province of BARMM.

Sinarimbo, chairperson of the inter-agency Regional Advisory Council of the Bangsamoro regional police office, said the MSSD is now attending to the needs of the injured Asakil and Pon. (JOHN FELIX UNSON, October 15, 2020)


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