| Injured | Killed |
|---|---|
| 6 | 1 |
Date: 22 June 2010
Source: http://luwaran.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1434:armyman-kills-one-wounds-six-in-compostela-valley-town&catid=81:moro-news&Itemid=372
June 24, 2010 – An Army infantryman killed one person and wounded six others in a firing spree in the village of Iloco Nuevo in Mawab town in Compostela Vallaey on June 22.
The killer-soldier was identified as Sergeant Fredo Argueles of the Army’s 10th Infantry Division, who after a heated argument with his wife, went out of their house and fired his M-14 firearm towards a group of civilians, killing Freddie Neri instantly and wounding six other villagers.
The identities of the wounded victims were not yet reported.
The report disclosed that Argueles was drunk during the time of shooting, but after the killing he escaped towards a banana plantation and later engaged other government soldiers, who were out to make him surrender.
Meanwhile, six government soldiers and two Moro rebels were killed in a series of fighting in Talipao, Sulu on June 23.
The fighting broke out after an Engineering Battalion of the Philippine Army ignored the warning of the rebels and continued to construct a road towards the hinterland of the town, where the Abu Sayyaf militants and former MNLF men are encamped.
The identities of the slain soldiers and the Moro fighters were not indicated in the report.
The Moro fighters, who attacked the soldiers in a road project in Tuyang, are followers of MNLF leader Khabir Malik and ASG commander Yasser Igasan.
Both Malik and Khaid Ajibon, another MNLF former political officer, are facing criminal charges over the death of two US soldiers in Indanan town on September 29, 2009.
The US soldiers were identified as 37-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Christopher D. Shaw of Markham in Illinois, and 26-year-old Staff Sgt. Jack M. Martin III of Bethany, Oklahoma.
The soldiers were assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group, Fort Lewis, Wash.,” US Defense officials said in statement.
MNLF chairman Nur Misuari vehemently criticized the filing of charges against Malik and Ajibon, saying the deaths of the US soldiers were not pre-planned; besides they were not supposed to be there in Sulu joining combat operation with the Philippine military.