Two Suspected Suicide Bombers from Egypt killed in Philippines

Soldiers in the southern Philippines have executed what the army called an attempted suicide bombing in an urban area, the latest in a series of attacks blamed on the ISIL-aligned Abu Sayyaf armed group.

According to a statement by the military on Wednesday, 6^th of November, 2019, they  said some troops manning a checkpoint on the island of Jolo, Sulu province, engaged in a short gunfight with three men, including two Egyptian nationals on a motorcycle late on Tuesday afternoon,  the attackers were killed and items like bomb vests, a handgun, a grenade and detonators were seized.

The intended target was an urban area of Jolo, the island’s capital, and two of the men were Egyptian, the statement said.

The other man was Filipino and a member of Abu Sayyaf, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, or ISIS) which is notorious for piracy and kidnapping foreigners. He was identified as alias Dems.

According to the Manila based TV station, Cirilito Sobejana, the military commander of Western Mindanao, he identified the two Egyptians as Abduramil and his son, Abdurahman,