Handout/Polomolok Police
Five suspected members of an Islamic State-linked Filipino militant group, including a senior lieutenant to its leader, were killed during separate raids by government security forces in the southern Philippines on Thursday, police said.
One of the Ansar al-Khilafah Philippines (AKP) suspects, identified as Kamarudin Sante, 43, was killed in a shootout with police as he resisted arrest during an early morning operation in Polomolok, a town in South Cotabato province, authorities said.
Sante (also known as Abu), was a senior lieutenant of Mohammad Jaafar Maguid (alias Commander Tokboy), the founder and leader of the pro-Islamic State AKP who was killed in 2017.
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