Police, military hunt Maguindanao drug dealers

Police and military units are on the hunt for two of four drug dealers who killed two police officers and wounded two others in a botched anti-drug operation on Friday in Sultan Kudarat town.

-  JOHN UNSON and EMMANUEL TUPAS

Brig. Gen. Romeo Jaime Macapaz, Police Regional Office Bangsamoro Autonomous Region director, told reporters yesterday that units from the Philippine Army and the Philippine National Police (PNP) are pursuing two suspects, identified as alias Said and alias Muksir, in the town's mountain barangays.

The two fled toward the hinterlands, leaving their wounded companions Suhod Kasim and Ting Katulangan, after running out of bullets during a brief exchange of gunfire with police operatives.