Lahad Datu: Rajah Mudah Agbimuddin still alive and in Sabah
01 APR 2013 11:56AM
MANILA: The brother of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III is still alive and still in Sabah, the sultan’s camp in Metro Manila claimed on Sunday.
Sultanate spokesman Abraham Idjirani said they last communicated with Raja Muda Azzimudie Kiram over the weekend, radio dzBB’s Nimfa Ravelo reported.
But Idjirani was quoted in the report as saying Azzimudie told them there was still “heavy fighting” in the area he was in, GMA News reported.
He also quoted Azzimudie as saying Malaysian security forces are continuing with their “roundup” of suspected Kiram followers.
Azzimudie had led a group of armed Filipinos to Sabah last February and engaged Malaysian security forces in a standoff for three weeks.
The standoff ended in deadly clashes on March 1 and 2 that led to Malaysia conducting offensive operations against Kiram’s followers since March 5.
Malaysian authorities earlier claimed Azzimudie had fled to Mindanao and abandoned his followers.
ABN NEWS
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