A police officer wounded in the shootout between former Maimbung, Sulu Vice Mayor Pando Mudjasan and security forces died from his injuries, Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Andres Centino said Sunday.
Centino explained that during the Saturday operation in which Philippine National Police -Special Action Force policemen and Armed Forces of the Philippines servicemen attempted to serve search and arrest warrants on Mudjasan,Eight cops were wounded in the fight, two of them seriously. The injured were flown to Zamboanga City on a Black Hawk helicopter.
“As far as the information provided to us, dati nga daw [he was a former] MNLF commander,” Centino said.
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