Around 80 MNLF rebels surrender in Zamboanga City

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MILITARY ZONE. Soldiers in Zamboanga City. Photo by EPA

Between 70 to 80 armed followers of Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founder Nur Misuari surrendered around 8 pm in Barangay Sta Barbara, Zamboanga City on Thursday, September 12, to police troops. Police intelligence sources and residents in Barangay Sta Barbara told Rappler they surrendered to a team of the Philippine National Police, the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission and the Philippine Center for Transnational Crime. “A certain member of MNLF under commander Ismael with white flag reached our position and negotiated their surrender. About 80 of them are armed and one is wounded,” according to the same sources. One of the hostages they brought with them is a priest — although the identity of the priest was not immediately known.

 

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