KIDAPAWAN CITY: Two members of the Ansarul Khilafah in the Philippines (AKP), supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) caliphate were killed after an elite police team stormed the group’s hideout on Thursday in a remote village in Maasim town in Sarangani Province.

Supt. Romeo Galgo, spokesman for the Central Mindanao police, said that the operation was carried out jointly by the PNP Regional Special Investigation and Detection Team, Special Action Force, Region 12’s Regional Public Safety Battalion and the Sarangani Police Provincial Police Office.