AUTHORITIES arrested one of the accomplices in the deadly Mindanao State University bombing in Marawi City.
Combined troops of Task Force Marawi and Marawi City police captured on December 6 a certain Jafar Gamo Sultan, a.k.a. Jaf/Kurot, who allegedly acted as an accomplice in the bombing at Mindanao State University last week.
According to the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the suspect was apprehended in an operation in Brgy Dulay Proper in Marawi.
He was a companion of a certain Omar, the person identified by witnesses to have placed the improvised explosive device at the Dimaporo Gymnasium.
Also seized by troops are two motorcyles.
“This development shows the seriousness of the government in capturing the perpetrators of the terrorist attack on innocent civilians and in ensuring that similar incidents will not happen again,” the AFP said in a statement.
“It also demonstrates the AFP’s commitment to its mandate as protector of the people and the state,” the military said.
The Dec. 3 attack has sparked condemnation across all sectors in the country where many echoed the need to seek justice for the victims and to bring the perpetrators behind bar.
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