Authorities allege one of the dead suspects had a hand in the bombing of a mall in Cotabato City in 2018.
COTABATO CITY, Philippines – Police killed two suspected members of the terrorist group Dawlah Islamiyah – both linked to a recent bombing of a bus in Tacurong City in Sultan Kudarat – during a shootout in Cotabato City on Sunday, November 27.
Lieutenant Colonel Lino Capellan, the spokesman of the police in the Soccsksargen region, said authorities were serving arrest warrants to the suspects when they resisted and put up a fight in Purok Pinnen, Barangay Rosary Heights 6 in Cotabato City. Capellan said Mandi was also suspected to have had a hand in the South Seas Mall bombing that killed at least two people and hurt 34 others in Cotabato City in 2018.
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