OMA exec hurt in mishap

COTABATO CITY – Executive Director Datu Ali Sangki of the Office of Muslim Affairs, his wife, Hadja Tita, and their two security escorts were injured after a vehicular accident  in Buluan, Maguinda­nao last Saturday.

Sangki and his companions were bound for the town proper of Buluan from Davao City when their Toyota Hilux pick up truck turned-turtle at a portion of a national highway in Barangay Digal at the boundary of Buluan and Datu Paglas towns in Maguindanao.

Sangki, an ethnic Maguindanaon, was scheduled to hold a dialogue with local and religious leaders in Buluan.

A relative, Datu Freddie Manguda­datu, mayor of nearby Mangudadatu town, said the Sangki couple and their security escorts, who were not immediately identified, suffered injuries in their legs and contusions in parts of their bodies.       – John Unson