MNLF men arrested in North Cotabato over killing of MILF commander

NORTH COTABATO, Philippines — Four men tagged in the killing of Jun Pananggulon, head of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s 108th Base Command, in an ambush in M’lang town on Sunday were arrested on Monday.

Superintendent Aldrin Gonzalez, spokesman for the Soccsksargen police, said Akmad Abdul,26; Bito Anog, 42; Nindie Sinumalong Dengkang, 27, and Tengan Tantong Anog, 52, members of the Moro National Liberation Front, were apprehended by personnel of the M’lang police and 7th Infantry Battalion in Barangay Gaunan.

Pannaggulon and his aide Toto Mangulayan were on their way to a banana farm when they were shot.

Pananggulon died at the scene. Mangulayan was wounded and remains confined in a hospital.