Police have killed a foreign militant during a skirmish with a pro-Daesh group in the southern Philippines, an official said Sunday.
The firefight erupted as police were hunting down members of the Ansarul Khilafa Philippines (AKP) group on the restive southern island of Mindanao on Saturday, local police spokesman Superintendent Romeo Galgo said.
“A foreign national initially identified as Abu Naila and one female member identified only as a certain Kadija... resisted arrest by attempting to lob a grenade against the arresting personnel,” he said in a statement.
The police responded by opening fire, killing the two, he added.
Authorities did not disclose the nationality of Abu Naila although they have previously said the AKP has worked with foreign militants.
Extremists from other Southeast Asian nations have been known to come to the Philippines to train local insurgents especially in the use of explosives.
The AKP is one of several violent militant groups on Mindanao.
The government has been hunting down other members of the group after its founder and leader, Mohammad Jaafar Maguid, was tracked down and shot dead last week at a beach resort in Mindanao while three “cohorts” were arrested.
The group has been known to fly the black flag of Daesh and Maguid appeared in a video circulated on social media last year with the leaders of other local militant groups pledging allegiance to the terrorists.
The authorities are looking into Ansarul Khilafa’s role in a bombing in Davao, Mindanao’s largest city in September last year that killed 15 people and injured dozens of others.
Source: Arab News
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