COTABATO CITY (October 18, 2025) — A 30-year-old son of a barangay chairman was hurt when gunmen fired M16 assault rifles at their family’s roadside bakery in Parangbasak in Lamitan City, Basilan on Saturday morning, October 18.

The Basilan Provincial Police Office stated in an initial report to Brig. Gen. Jaysen De Guzman, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, that the motorcycle-riding men opened fire at the bakery of Parangbasak’s 68-year-old barangay chairman, Juddihal Iralan Muddalan, and immediately motored away.

Mudallan’s son, Alcarem Ballaho Muddalan, an incumbent member of the Parangbasak barangay council, was hit by a bullet in his right arm. He was immediately transported by emergency responders to a hospital for treatment.

The victim’s father is known for his active involvement, as barangay chairman, in police and military law-enforcement activities in all areas within the territory of Parangbasak, one of the more than 40 barangays in Lamitan City in Basilan province in the Bangsamoro region.

Lt. Col. Elmer Solon, chief of the Lamitan City Police Station, has relayed to PRO-BAR’s headquarters in Camp SK Pendatun in Parang, Maguindanao del Norte, that their investigators and residents of Barangay Parangbasak are cooperating in identifying the gunmen behind the atrocity for prosecution.