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Wounded cops in ambush get 'Kagitingan' medals

By Guia Rebollido

August 31, 2022, 1:19 pm

<p><strong>KAGITINGAN MEDAL</strong>. Interior and Local Government Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. confers the Medalya ng Kadakilaan at Medalya ng Sugatang Magiting on one of the three wounded police officers in the Tuesday ambush in Ampatuan, Maguindanao. Abalos, together with Philippine National Police chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr., visited the wounded cops Wednesday (Aug. 31, 2022) at a hospital in Esperanza town in Sultan Kudarat province. <em>(Photo courtesy of Drema Bravo/dxMS-Cotabato)</em></p>

KAGITINGAN MEDAL. Interior and Local Government Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. confers the Medalya ng Kadakilaan at Medalya ng Sugatang Magiting on one of the three wounded police officers in the Tuesday ambush in Ampatuan, Maguindanao. Abalos, together with Philippine National Police chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr., visited the wounded cops Wednesday (Aug. 31, 2022) at a hospital in Esperanza town in Sultan Kudarat province. (Photo courtesy of Drema Bravo/dxMS-Cotabato)

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Interior Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. and Philippine National Police (PNP) chief General Rodolfo Azurin Jr. gave awards Wednesday to three police officers who were wounded in an ambush in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao.

The police officers sustained injuries as a result of a firefight when they engaged their attackers in Barangay Kapinpilan, Ampatuan, Maguindanao on Tuesday.

Accompanied by local officials, Abalos and Azurin arrived in Maguindanao to discuss with police, military, and local officials about the situation in Maguindanao, led by Governor Bai Mariam Sangki Mangudadatu.

The officials conferred the Medalya ng Kadakilaan at Medalya ng Sugatang Magiting Police on Senior Master Sgt. Reynante Quinalayo, and Corporals Rogelio Dela Cuesta and Marc Clint Dayaday who are confined in a hospital in Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat.

“Thank you very much for your heroism. You should be emulated for the heroism you have shown,” Abalos said.

Killed in the ambush were Lt. Reynaldo Samson, town police chief; and Corporal Salipudin Endab, his aide-driver.

State security forces in the province are now on the trail of the perpetrators, believed to be members of the Daesh-inspired Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters. (PNA)

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