2 dead, 3 hurt in ambush in Cotabato province
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Two individuals were killed while three others, including a municipal councilor in a newly created Bangsamoro town, were wounded in an ambush in Barangay Salunayan, Midsayap, Cotabato, on Tuesday morning, October 7.
Local officials and personnel of the Midsayap Municipal Police Station told reporters at noon that the incident left tricycle driver Rahib Mamintal Wahab and an aide of a municipal councilor, Udin Endaila Dalgan, dead.
Dalgan and his companions, Saida Felmin Endaila, a municipal councilor in Kadayangan town in the Bangsamoro Special Geographic Area in Cotabato; her husband Madron Sumlay Endaila and Lani Endaila Usop were aboard a black Toyota Fortuner when gunmen opened fire at them along a highway in Barangay Salunayan.
Midsayap, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Cotabato provincial government, has more than a dozen barangays that joined the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) after residents voted for inclusion in a 2019 plebiscite.
Lt. Col. Oliver Pauya, chief of the Midsayap Municipal Police, said the three passengers of the Toyota Fortuner sustained gunshot wounds and were rushed to a hospital for treatment.
Wahab, who happened to be driving his tricycle near the ambush site, was hit by stray bullets in his upper torso and died instantly.
The attackers escaped before responding community watchmen and barangay officials could reach the scene.
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