MLANG, North Cotabato: Authorities on Wednesday clarified reports that the recent attack in barangay Tibao here was a renewed skirmish between Moro residents and mixed Ilonggo and other Visayan settlers fighting over land ownership.

Maj. Gen. Edmundo Pangilinan, commander of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, with officials of the 602nd Infantry Brigade also belied reports that the recent attack against Ilonggo farmers in a remote village here was a handiwork of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).