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Thursday 03 Mar 2016 - 13:36 Makkah mean time-23-5-1437
Zamboanga, Philippine (IINA) - Philippine’s authorities have set up a joint task force on Wednesday to investigate an attack that wounded a Saudi Islamic scholar and a religious attaché to the Kingdom’s embassy following a university lecture program in the archipelago’s south, Anadolu Agency reported.
A police spokesperson in Zamboanga, a predominantly Christian city in the majority Muslim southern region, said Wednesday that police and military personnel would make up Special Investigation Task Group WMSU.
The task force is named after Western Mindanao State University, where Sheikh Ayed Al-Qarni and Sheikh Turki Assaegh were shot by a gunman who was later killed by Al-Qarni’s security entourage Tuesday night.
Senior Inspector Helen Galvez was quoted by GMA News as saying that the slain suspect had been identified as a 21-year-old WMSU senior engineering student, Rugasan Misuari III, who had attended the forum at the university’s gymnasium.
The police spokesperson added that two of Misuari’s companions had been called for questioning over possible involvement in the attack, the motive for which remains under investigation.
According to a report by the city’s police office, investigators found a motorcycle near the university’s gate. "Recovered inside the tool or u-box of the motorcycle were a resident certificate with name Rugasan Misuari III, 21, and some bullets of .45 cal. pistol", it said, confirming that the bullets matched the gun found on the suspect. Police had reportedly also found what appeared to be a school uniform inside his bag.
The Ulama Council of Zamboanga Peninsula said the forum attracted more than 8,000 attendees, including students and preachers, from different parts of southern Mindanao.
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