ZAMBOANGA CITY – Security forces shot dead a suspected Filipino terrorist who was being linked to a bombing in General Santos City in 2018 that left at least seven people wounded.

Police said Ben Usman, a brother of terrorist leader Abdul Basit Usman, was killed in an exchange of gunfire with police commandos and soldiers who were trying to arrest him in South Cotabato’s Polomolok town.

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