Cops seize explosives in Zamboanga City

Government forces on Wednesday night seized explosives and grenades during a search on a suspected Abu Sayyaf member's house in Zamboanga City.

Three people were also arrested in the search in Sitio Marangan in Barangay Muti, GMA News correspondent Peewee Bacuño reported.

Zamboanga City Police personnel, backed by military and Police Special Action Force troopers, searched at 11 p.m. the house of suspected Abu Sayyaf bomb maker Walid, reportedly a protégé of Kair Mundos and SPO2 Jun Malvan.

Malvan had been arrested in Malaysia in connection with the alleged kidnapping of an Australian national.

Found in the house were a bag of explosives, three unassembled improvised explosive devices, three grenades and two firearms.

Those arrested included one Basit, Jihadi Tibulung, and an old man.

Pursuit operations against Walid and Abu Sayyaf member Marzan Ajijul are ongoing. — Joel Locsin/LBG, GMA News