By Joel Guinto
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 06:31pm (Mla time) 01/25/2007
MANILA, Philippines -- A sub-commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was injured in an ambush in the province of Shariff Kabunsuan Thursday, a rebel spokesman said.
Adan Abdullah, commander of the MILF's 106th Base Command, was onboard a pick-up truck traveling along the highway in Sultan Kudarat town at around 4:15 p.m. when a motorcycle-riding gunman fired at him, MILF spokesman Eid Kabalu said.
Abdullah was hit in the chest and hand and was brought to a nearby hospital for treatment. His two companions were unhurt, Kabalu said in a phone interview.
"As far as the reports that we have received, he is in stable condition," Kabalu said.
"As for the motive for the shooting, whether personal grudge or whatever, we don't know yet," Kabalu added.
The shooting came as the government and the MILF moved to restart formal peace talks, which bogged down late last year after negotiators failed to agree on the extent of the "ancestral domain" in central Mindanao that the rebels were claiming.
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