Abu Sayyaf bomb expert killed in clash in southern Philippines


Philippine security forces have killed a Abu Sayyaf terror group’s bomb expert in a clash in a remote village in southern Philippine province Sulu, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.

Maj. Arvin Encinas, the spokesperson of the Philippine military’s Western Mindanao Command, identified the slain terrorist as Nanz Sawadjaan, the younger brother of Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan.

“He was one of the Abu Sayyaf group’s bomb experts who produced the improvised explosive devices used in the recent suicide bombing incidents in Sulu,” Encinas said.

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Source: XINHUANET