THE police here said that the suspects for the killing of an army reservist last week belong to a local terror group known as Islamic State's Wilayat East Asia (ISWAA), an affiliated group of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Col. Rey Delantein, police chief of Alabel town in Sarangani province, confirmed this on Friday.

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