The attack on Vice Mayor Antonio Gunsi of South Upi town, however, left his driver and one of his security men badly wounded, said Capt. Onting Alon, deputy civil-military relations chief of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division.
South Upi is the known haven of the Indigenous People’s Federal Army, a ragtag militia of Tiruray tribesmen claiming to be fighting for federal states each for Mindanao’s Muslim, Christian and tribal communities. — John Unson