The Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region is trying its best to resolve the fatal ambush of a ranking leader of the indigenous Teduray tribe on Friday, July 25, in Barangay Romongaob in South Upi, Maguindanao del Sur.

The spokesperson of PRO-BAR, Lt. Col. Jopy Ventura, told reporters on Sunday, that investigators and intelligence agents from the South Upi Municipal Police Station and the Maguindanao del Sur Provincial Police Office are cooperating in identifying the gunmen behind that attack that left the tribal chieftain Nicasio Mindo dead.

Mindo and his teacher-spouse, Jennelyn, more known in their tribe as Dindin, were together in their red multicab, on their way home to Barangay Pilar in South Upi, when gunmen opened fire at their vehicle while they were passing through a secluded stretch of a highway in Sitio Lenan in Barangay Romongaob.

Their attackers had immediately escaped using getaway motorcycles.

Jennelyn, a teacher in the Saramuray Elementary School in the municipality, was wounded in the attack, now recuperating in a hospital.

Brig. Gen. Jaysen De Guzman, director of PRO-BAR, has ordered his subordinate-officers in South Upi and in the provincial police force to enlist the help of local executives and leaders of the Teduray tribe in putting a full closure to the atrocity that tribal leaders and officials of the Bangsamoro government had condemned.

(July 28, 2025, Cotabato City, Bangsamoro Region, Southern Philippines)