IED event in Sulu, Jolo area, Philippines on Sun 11th October 2020

Philippines Captures Indonesian Woman Suspected Of Planning Suicide Bomb Attack Security forces in the southern Philippines on Saturday captured an Indonesian woman they suspect was planning a suicide bomb attack, the military said. The woman, identified as Rezky Fantasya Rullie, alias Cici, was apprehended in a pre-dawn raid by security forces on the island of Jolo along with two Filipino women believed to be married to pro-Islamic State Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) militants, the military-led Joint Task Force Sulu said in a statement. Rullie’s capture “is a great loss to the IS-inclined faction of the ASG, because Cici, as far as intelligence information is concerned, had agreed to carry out the next suicide bombing,” Lt. Gen. Corleto Vinluan, head of the military’s Western Mindanao Command based in Zamboanga, told BenarNews. “Gathered in the possession of the apprehended individuals were suicide vests rigged with pipe bombs and other improvised explosive device components,” the task force said. PBIED