President Benigno Aquino III is scheduled to lead the necrological
service for the fallen members of the Philippine National Police-Special Action
Force (PNP-SAF) at Camp Bagong Diwa in Tuguig City Friday (Jan. 30).
The memorial service coincides with the observance of the National Day
of Mourning declared by the President in remembrance for the 44 members of the
police’s elite group who were killed in a clash with members of the Moro
Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Mamasapano, Maguindanao last Sunday.
Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio
Coloma, in a statement, said that aside from the SAF members’ family and
friends, the necrological service will also be attended by the Cabinet members
and other government officials.
The policemen died during a fire fight with MILF members while in the
mid of serving arrest warrants against suspected bomb experts Malaysian
Zulkipli bin Hir, a.k.a. Marwan, and Filipino Abdul Basit Usman, who were both
linked with the terror group Jemaah Islamiya. (PNA)
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