PH Navy ships hold gun exercises in Mindanao

MANILA, Philippines: Philippine Navy vessels deployed in Western Mindanao conducted gun exercises off the waters in Basilan to test its defense capability.

Lt. Chester Ross Cabaltera, acting Public Affairs officer, said the Naval Forces Western Mindanao (NFWM), through Naval Task Force-61, test fired guns from three Navy vessels and four gunboats near the Dassalan Island, Hadji Muhammad, in Basilan Sea.