Twin attacks on IP members in Maguindanao del Sur condemned

Inquirer.net - Oct 21, 2026

COTABATO CITY  – Institutions in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) have condemned the successive shooting incidents in Maguindanao del Sur that claimed the lives of two Non-Moro Indigenous Peoples (IP) and wounded another. The BARMM Ministry of Indigenous Peoples Affairs (MIPA) slammed the attacks and raised concern over it while calling for

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