THE POLICE arrested here on Monday morning the wife of the new leader of the Maute terror group in a series of operations that left a wanted bomb-maker dead. According to Senior Superintendent Raul S. Supiter of the city police office, arrested Nafisah Pundog, spouse of Owaida Marohombsar, also known as Abdulmajib and “Abu Dar,” is now tightly guarded to forestall a possible rescue by the Islamic State-inspired militants. Ms. Pundog is reportedly married to the elusive Abu Dar, the Maranao figurehead of about 50 or so remnants of the Maute terror group holding out in the forested hinterlands of Lanao del Sur, a province of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. The Western Mindanao Command in Zamboanga City and its component-unit covering Lanao del Sur and Marawi City, the 103rd Brigade, had separately confirmed that Marohombsar assumed leadership of the Maute terror group after the death of its founders, siblings Omarkhayam and Abdullah Maute, in encounters with soldiers in Marawi City in October last year. — PHILSTAR
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