SAF battalion deployed to Sulu for security
PNP spokesman Police Brig. Gen. Bernard Banac said the SAF battalion is composed of 348 fully-equipped and well-trained personnel who are all tasked to intensify the security and manhunt against the Abu Sayyaf Group and the terrorists that the group has been coddling.He said half of the battalion will come from the SAF headquarters in Taguig City while the other half are composed of SAF commandos assigned in various areas in western part of Mindanao.
“The PBDC analysts will seek to determine any specific bomb signature of the explosives that were detonated based on reconstruction of forensic evidence gathered by Crime Laboratory and other security forces that responded to the incident,” said Banac. Banac explained that the PNP has always been a partner of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in running after terror groups in Mindanao.
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