In a report from the Police Regional Office Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, joint personnel of Patikul Municipal Police Station, 52nd special action company, and regional mobile force battalion 14 conducted a hot pursuit operation against the alleged suspects in the Jolo cathedral bombing in Kalimayal village Barangay Latih in Patikul, Sulu, at 6:30 p.m.
Police said Ommal Yusop, 62, died during the operation while alias Kamah and another unidentified male person eluded arrest.
The report said as police arrived in their supposed hide-out, Yuson drew his fiream and shot the government forces which prompted them to return fire and resulted to his death.
Recovered from the scene were a caliber .45 pistol, one empty shell of caliber .45, five live ammunition of the said caliber fiream, and one magazine.
Kamah has been identified as a member of the Ajang-Ajang faction of the Abu Sayyaf Group and also a brother of Abu Sayyaf bombmaker Surakah Ingog, was among the three suspects in the Jolo twin bombing that killed 20 persons and wounded 112, including 3 children.
Amid the encounter, the man suspected to be Kamah and his other companion were able to escape, police regional office said.
He was seen through a closed-circuit television camera while allegedly in the act of detonating the improvised explosive device planted in the Our Lady of Mount Carmel cathedral in Jolo, Sulu. [Third Anne Peralta-Malonzo, SunStar Philippines]
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