SEVEN men involved in kidnapping and murder activities yesterday were killed in a shootout with the police in Sulu.
The slain suspects were identified as Juko Dahim, Jimming Akjal, Malik Eron and his still unidentified son, Aldimar Kanih, Gamil Halik and Norhan Pasi.
Philippine National Police – Criminal Investigation and Detection Group director Brig. Gen. Romeo M. Caramat Jr. said the gun battle occurred in the boundary of Bgy. Labah in Maimbung, and Bgy. Kapuk Punggol in Parang Sulu at 1:21 a.m. yesterday.
Members of the CIDG Sulu Provincial Field Unit, the PNP Special Action Force’s 7th Special Action Battalion, the Sulu Police Provincial Office and the Maimbung Municipal Police Station went to the area to serve a warrant of arrest issued by a local court against two of the suspects, brothers Juko and Alganer Dawadil Dahim.
Operatives were approaching their target area when they were fired upon by the suspects.
Officers exchanged fire with the gunmen.
Juko Dahim, a man wanted for robbery, yielded one M-16 Colt AR-15 automatic rifle with 11 magazines, 401 rounds of cal. 5.56 live ammunition, four M-14 magazines with 80 bullets, 19 pieces of live M-203 ammunition, four ammo bandoliers and a bag containing assorted firearms’ accessories.
Akhal yielded one M-16 Elisco rifle with two magazines and two live 5.56 ammunition while Eron was found in possession of one M-16 rifle equipped with an M-203 grenade launcher, two M-16 magazines with 20 bullets and one bandolier.
The slain man’s unidentified son yielded one M-16 Colt assault rifle with two empty magazines and a bolo with scabbard while Kanih had one M-16 rifle with two empty magazines.
Seized from Halik were one M-14 rifle with two magazines containing 41 live ammunition while Pasi, who is wanted for a murder case, yielded one M-14 automatic rifle with magazine containing 14 live ammunition.
Caramat said that two other suspects identified as Rogir Mukattir alias “Rojimar Dahim” and Julmin Aman Asgali were arrested during the operation.
