20 fishermen killed in Basilan

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20 fishermen killed in Basilan
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seWer Rat	Jan 24 2012, 01:15 PM Post #1
amateur sewer cleaner Posts: 3,124 Group: Elite Member #87 Joined: August 19, 2004	http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/133199/20-fis..._medium=twitter ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines—At least 20 fishermen were killed in an attack by still unidentified men off Sibago Island in Basilan on Monday, military and police officials said. Colonel Jose Johriel Cenabre, Marine operations officer of the Naval Forces in Western Mindanao, said the bodies of the slain fishermen had been recovered and were to be brought here on Tuesday. Chief Superintendent Bienvenido Latag, Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao police director, said the fishermen were aboard three fishing boats when attacked by an unspecified number of gunmen. The identities of the victims and the killers are still being determined, he said.
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AZKALS	Jan 24 2012, 01:35 PM Post #2
Posts: 2,768 Group: Elite Member #6,150 Joined: December 31, 2010	Reuters news has reported 15 casualties so far...



zztopy	Jan 24 2012, 04:49 PM Post #3
Member Posts: 330 Group: Regulars Member #5,949 Joined: June 27, 2010	lets not be too fast accusing the malaysians of having a hand in this tragic incident



arvcab	Jan 25 2012, 07:21 AM Post #4
Member Posts: 1,325 Group: Regulars Member #507 Joined: July 22, 2005	http://ph.news.yahoo.com/gunmen-kill-15-ph...-025328911.html Gunmen have killed 15 Philippine fishermen and wounded three others in a sea attack by suspected local rivals, the military said Tuesday. The fishermen were killed by men armed with assault rifles off the insurgency-torn southern island of Basilan on Monday, regional military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Randolph Cabangbang told AFP. "They (victims) were fishing on another group's turf," Cabangbang told AFP in a telephone interview. He said the authorities had ruled out the potential involvement of Islamist militants or Muslim guerrillas, who are also active in Basilan. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but police have identified several suspects and arrests are expected shortly, Cabangbang said. A military unit was ordered to provide security for police investigators as well as to help track down the suspects, described by the authorities as heavily armed. "There is an operation to track down the attackers, who could also be fishermen. This attack could be connected to a turf war," said regional military commander Major-General Noel Coballes. The victims were all residents of the southern city of Pagadian, about 160 kilometres (100 miles) to the northeast, and were attacked as soon as their three boats approached the tiny island of Sibago, off Basilan's east coast. Other fishermen in the area later discovered the shooting and took the three wounded victims to hospital, Cabangbang said. The bodies of the 15 dead fishermen were taken back to Pagadian, he added. Rights groups have said a culture of impunity pervades the Philippines, where there are more than 1.1 million unlicensed firearms, on top of the 1.3 million guns in the hands of authorised police and military personnel. The combined tally means there is roughly one firearm for every 40 Filipinos.



Frenzy	Jan 25 2012, 07:43 PM Post #5
Member Posts: 1,251 Group: Regulars Member #78 Joined: August 11, 2004	Police disarms villagers in killing probe MANILA, Philippines — Philippine police say they have disarmed villagers on a southern island as part of an investigation into a massacre that killed 15 fishermen in a suspected feud over lucrative fishing grounds. Regional police officer Felicisimo Khu said Wednesday that the Sibago Island residents and their confiscated guns will be tested to determine if they fired the weapons in Monday’s attack on a group of rival fishermen who were aboard three boats. He says no suspects have been named. Khu says only four bodies have been recovered from the sea but the other 11 fishermen are missing and presumed dead. He says visiting U.S. troops sent a plane to help in the search. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/134167/police...n-killing-probe



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