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MILF killed terrorist Usman: Philippine military

Xinhua, May 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Philippine military acknowledged Wednesday that Muslim rebel group, Moro Islamic Liberation Front ( MILF), killed terrorist Abdul Basit Usman, who had 1-million-U.S. dollar bounty on the head placed by the United States.

Lieutenant Colonel Harold Cabunoc, the military public information chief, said that after verification, government troopers have learned that Usman entered an MILF area in southern province of Maguindanao.

"Elements from the MILF then accosted him so that he can be brought to the MILF Central Committee," he said, adding however that the Abu Sayyaf bomb-maker "resisted, triggering a firefight that resulted to his death."

Initially, there were conflicting information as to how Usman, who had 1-million-U.S. dollar bounty on the head placed by the United States, and his five other cohorts were killed in Guindulungan, Maguindanao on Sunday.

The military earlier said that it was Usman and his companions who fought and killed each other due to the bounty, but the MILF claimed that its their fighters who killed the terrorist.

The Philippine government and the MILF forged last year a peace agreement and they are now on the process of implementing it. Endi